Insurgent communication networks reached across the colony and the wider Americas

Evidence

The insurgents had developed networks of communication that stretched across the colony and beyond. The general Joseph, forced to retreat from his camp in February 1793, left behind letters sent to him by an insurgent chief in another part of Saint-Domingue, as well as one sent to him from a correspondent in Philadelphia. Indeed the currents of communication among slave communities in the Americas buzzed with news of the uprising in Saint-Domingue. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 515

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider Atlantic framing: news of Saint-Domingue circulating among slave communities across the Americas ties to the contagion of revolution the reader follows across contexts.
• SEED: Angle: how enslaved and insurgent networks built their own information infrastructure independent of colonial channels, prefiguring later communication during the revolution.