Literate free allies helped escaped slaves forge travel passes

Evidence

Escaped slaves took advantage of “friends who know how to write” to create false passports, and moved about “with impunity,” coming into town to sell and buy provisions before returning to the woods. There was also a traffic in real passes, whose dates could be forged. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 190

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• SHARE: A niche detail about forged travel passes in colonial Saint-Domingue — good for someone interested in everyday resistance mechanics.