Postwar American slaves moved from individual flight toward collective violent liberation.

Evidence

Black assertiveness in postwar North Carolina revealed a greater collective consciousness among slaves and an increasing willingness to use violence to liberate not only individuals but groups of slaves. In 1783 the Chowan County court tried the slave Grainge for the “atrocious Crime of endeavouring to Stir up Slaves for the Diabolical purpose of Murdering their Masters and Mistresses.” … — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 721