No instance shows non-European agency rebuffing the colonial assault

Evidence

But who and what comprised the threat was not clear, certainly not in Governor-General Rochussen’s letter to Baud four days after the gathering: was there subversion among the well-to-do, European-born city fathers, led by liberals like Van Hoëvell, or among the more extreme “hotheads” who stayed on at de Harmonie that night after the bulk of the crowd had retired? Was it a creole uprising among the Indies-born and - bred Europeans or a seditious bid to break off from the Netherlands by destitute “coloreds” with nothing to lose? — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 524 (#complicates, via linked claim)

But who and what comprised the threat was not clear, certainly not in Governor-General Rochussen’s letter to Baud four days after the gathering: was there subversion among the well-to-do, European-born city fathers, led by liberals like Van Hoëvell, or among the more extreme “hotheads” who stayed on at de Harmonie that night after the bulk of the crowd had retired? Was it a creole uprising among the Indies-born and - bred Europeans or a seditious bid to break off from the Netherlands by destitute “coloreds” with nothing to lose? — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 524 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authorities could not identify who or what threatened their rule — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 524; Colonial fears about subject groups persisted without any actual rebellion; Colonial officials discounted attacks as personal revenge absent political significance (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial officials discounted attacks as personal revenge absent political significance #complicates (0.78)
• Colonial authorities could not identify who or what threatened their rule #complicates (0.75) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 524
• Colonial officials could not distinguish which social segment actually threatened their rule #complicates (0.75) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 524
• Colonial powers deliberately omitted African revolts from official records #complicates (0.74) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 820
• Colonial fears about subject groups persisted without any actual rebellion #complicates (0.72)