Insurrection was now established as a path to legally sanctioned freedom

Evidence

Still, a precedent had been set, one that in the words of one contemporary provided a “dangerous example for all thinking blacks”: insurrection and war against whites could lead to an officially sanctioned freedom. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 475

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the coercive-deterrence logic familiar from other contexts (e.g., Milgrom on reputation and rewards); freedom became an incentive its custodians could not retract.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did contemporaries across the Atlantic deploy the phrase ‘dangerous example for all thinking blacks’ — was it a circulating trope of the era?