News of the Haitian Revolution inspired slaves across the Americas to revolt

Evidence

While Haiti represented a nightmare to many slave masters, it was a source of inspiration for slaves throughout the Americas. “Within one month after the 1791 uprising, slaves in Jamaica were singing songs about it,” and within a few years masters “from Virginia to Louisiana to Cuba and Brazil were complaining of a new ‘insolence’ on the part of their slaves, which they often attributed to awareness of the successful black revolution.” In Richmond the example of Haiti inspired a slave named Gabriel in 1800 to plan a bold conspiracy that envisioned a collaboration between whites and blacks—perhaps an echo of the alliance that brought down slavery in Saint-Domingue in 1793—in pursuit of emancipation. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1071