Freed prisoners and slaves armed themselves during the town’s chaos

Evidence

The prisons were opened, releasing hundreds of slaves “captured in the battles against the insurgents.” Many of these freed prisoners, along with other slaves in Le Cap, managed to obtain rifles and other weapons— according to one account, free-coloreds distributed weapons to domestics from stashes in their houses, while many later accused the commissioners of having ordered the distribution of guns to the urban slaves—and some began fighting Galbaud’s troops. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 541

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• XREF: connects to: Walnut Street prisoners mounted armed insurrections echoing revolutionary ideals — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 157