Insurgent rank and file violently opposed even their leaders’ negotiations with white authorities.

Evidence

When a delegation of leaders, including Toussaint, marched to Le Cap to bring the white prisoners to the commissioners, they were stopped on the way by a crowd of “negroes,” who, as Gros described it, “swords in hand, threatened to send only our heads to Le Cap, swearing against peace and against their generals.” Only the firmness of the escorts saved the whites. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 436

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The crowd’s suspicion of elites — both white and mulatto — foreshadows the deep internal fractures that recur throughout the Haitian Revolution.

Related

• Ordinary insurgents threatened to murder their own generals’ envoys (similarity 0.88)
• The rank-and-file insurgents radicalized faster than their leaders, driving the revolt leftward. (similarity 0.84)
• White officers saw free-colored troops as superior to European soldiers (similarity 0.79)
• Free colored leaders had repeatedly betrayed or killed black insurgent commanders (similarity 0.78)