Planters envisioned pan-American cooperation to stop abolition

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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