Haiti’s example inspired slave conspiracies in Cuba and Charleston

Evidence

“Word ran through Havana,” according to one slave in Cuba, that “generals and captains” from Haiti had come to seek “freedom for all the slaves on the island.” Years later Denmark Vesey, who had lived for a short time in Saint-Domingue, would promise “his followers the help of Haitian soldiers once they had taken over the city of Charleston.” Though Haiti’s rulers never openly supported revolts elsewhere, some did invite any who escaped slavery to take refuge in their land. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1073

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s Connection Points priority about stitching the wider Atlantic context of the revolutionary arc.