French abolitionist news reached Saint-Domingue and alarmed white colonists before 1789.

Evidence

While the whites of Saint-Domingue were busy carrying out their revolution, they reacted violently to the possibility of another, more radical, revolution that could turn their world upside down. Already in May 1788, the arrival of copies of a French paper that included articles attacking the slave trade and discussing abolitionist movements in England had created a “great sensation” in Saint-Domingue. In the next year news of the activities of the French Société des Amis des Noirs reached the island. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 275

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rumors of British emancipation bills inflamed white colonists’ fear for slave property — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 99; A false rumor of French abolition edicts inspired slaves to revolt
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Rumors of British emancipation bills inflamed white colonists’ fear for slave property — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 99; A false rumor of French abolition edicts inspired slaves to revolt