Inexperienced metropolitan radicals were given charge of the world’s most valuable colony

Evidence

So it was that two provincial lawyers turned revolutionary journalists, neither of whom had any experience in the Caribbean, were handed the fate of what had until recently been the most profitable colony in the world. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 490

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compressed image of revolutionary contingency: the entire course of the most profitable colony on earth turned on two inexperienced provincials, an accident of Brissot’s patronage network.
• STORYSTEM: A resonant setup: untested ideologues handed an empire’s richest asset because the metropole had no one qualified and no time to train anyone.