French decree invited slaves to lodge complaints against abusive masters.

Evidence

Perhaps most importantly—and most infuriatingly to the planters—it invited slaves to bring complaints against their masters and managers to the attention of local officials. Especially when those local officials were part of Sonthonax’s regime, planters could expect that—as had never really been the case before—slave complaints might be taken seriously and lead to punishments for violent planters. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 535

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Plantation slaves claimed a right to protest mistreatment by their masters; Reported plantation uprisings drove France’s 1780s royal reforms granting slaves legal complaint rights — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 118
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Plantation slaves claimed a right to protest mistreatment by their masters; Reported plantation uprisings drove France’s 1780s royal reforms granting slaves legal complaint rights — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 118