Leclerc counted two thousand dangerous leaders inside the colony

Evidence

Leclerc wrote in late August of “2,000 leaders” he needed to remove from the colony, including plantation managers, who could easily incite their plantation laborers to revolt. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1016

Categorization

• SEED: The scale of ‘2,000 leaders’ needing removal raises the question of how a colonial state purges an entire leadership class - a potentially usable angle on counterinsurgency.