Insurgents killed French emissaries who offered amnesty without freedom

Evidence

The whites and free-coloreds who were sent with the official French response—which rejected emancipation but offered an amnesty to all insurgents who would return to the plantation and denounce their leaders— were attacked, and six of the nine were killed by the disgusted insurgents. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 362

Categorization

• SEED: The visceral refusal of an amnesty-betrayal-your-leaders offer is a sharp case study in why top-down ‘generous’ compromise terms fail when issued from a position of moral authority the rebels reject.