Planters were most shocked by the rebellion of their most trusted slaves.

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• United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.86)
• Free men of color policed slaves, creating a reliance that threatened revolt. (similarity 0.86)
• Former planters misjudged ex-slaves as unchanged by ten years of revolution. (similarity 0.85)
• Enlightenment thinkers argued slaves had the right to violent resistance (similarity 0.85)
• The antislavery universalism of Grégoire inadvertently fueled planters’ fears of slave revolt (similarity 0.84)
• Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.84)
• Planters feared the Declaration of Rights would reach the colonies (similarity 0.83)
• Freed slaves turned ruined plantations into independent subsistence family plots (similarity 0.83)
• Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.83)
• The 1791 insurrection quickly destroyed over 200 plantations and gathered 20,000 to 80,000 insurgents. (similarity 0.82)
• Theft laws criminalized former slaves’ access to land’s spontaneous fruits. (similarity 0.82)
• Slaves capitalized on every crisis among their exploiters to rebel. (similarity 0.82)
• Obeah men organized rebellions by administering oaths and protective charms. (similarity 0.82)
• Slaves who fought for France at Cartagena gained their freedom (similarity 0.82)
• Makandal’s execution failed to convince slaves that the revolt leader was truly dead (similarity 0.81)