Insurgents systematically destroyed every material instrument of slavery itself.
Evidence
Indeed, throughout the region insurgents destroyed “not only the cane fields, but also the manufacturing installations, sugar mills, tools and other farm equipment, storage bins, and slave quarters; in short, every material manifestation of their existence under slavery and its means of exploitation.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 326
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Defines the insurrection’s target: the material infrastructure of slavery, not merely crops or property.
Related
- Insurgent violence had forced recognition as a political force. (similarity 0.83)
- Slaves capitalized on every crisis among their exploiters to rebel. (similarity 0.81)
- Insurgent slaves self-organized into disciplined armed regiments within months (similarity 0.80)
- Insurgents transformed from laborers into a disciplined armed force within months (similarity 0.80)
- The uprising so depleted plantations that surviving whites had to rent other people’s slaves (similarity 0.79)
- White and free-colored factions spread slave revolution by arming slaves (similarity 0.79)
- Slaves in the western province took over plantations rather than destroying them (similarity 0.78)
- Insurgents demanded total emancipation, not incremental reform, from the start (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Slaves capitalized on every crisis among their exploiters to rebel.
#corroborates(0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 720