Planters believed the Assembly would abolish slavery and sought transnational slaveholder alliance
Evidence
Like many planters, she saw the decision as proof that the National Assembly was committed to destroying their lives as masters, and believed that secession from France might be necessary. Saint-Domingue, she argued, should send deputies “to all the powers that have slave colonies” in order to “ask for help in case the Assembly ends up pronouncing the abolition of slavery, which it certainly will do.” The slave owners of the Americas, she hoped, would band together to stop the “contagion of liberty.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 307
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Planters envisioned pan-American cooperation to stop abolition (similarity 0.89)
- Planters’ treason pushed France to emancipate slaves as defenders. (similarity 0.85)
- French planters organized their own lobby to defend colonial slavery (similarity 0.84)
- Planters’ treason pushed the French to arm rebel slaves (similarity 0.84)
- Saint-Domingue planters in Paris launched a reactionary attack on emancipation (similarity 0.83)
- Planters saw the Declaration of the Rights of Man as a threat to slavery. (similarity 0.81)
- Slave rebels sought freedom through alliance with France, not secession (similarity 0.81)
- Planters blamed abolitionist propaganda and white agitators for the revolt. (similarity 0.81)
- White planters blamed abolitionists, not slavery, for inciting the revolt. (similarity 0.80)
- Some planters fled even unbeleaguered colonies out of fear of contagion (similarity 0.80)
- Planters feared slave testimony more than they valued royal protection (similarity 0.80)
- French planters attacked emancipation and demanded forced labor from ex-slaves (similarity 0.80)
- Ex-slave elites and officers resisted returning plantations to white owners. (similarity 0.80)
- Planters mobilized to block free-colored representation in the National Assembly (similarity 0.79)
- Insurrection could now win enslaved people an officially sanctioned freedom (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Planters’ treason pushed France to emancipate slaves as defenders.
#corroborates(0.75)