Premature attacks likely cost the revolt its planned decapitation of Le Cap’s elite.

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So, starting with the attack against Mossut at La Gossette, and then the uprisings in Acul, the revolt was set in motion early. The insurrection was more fragmented and haphazard than the plan of the fourteenth had envisioned. The early launching of the insurrection may have short-circuited a plan for the slaves in Le Cap to rise up on August 25 as insurgents attacked from outside the town. The 1791 insurrection, for all it ultimately achieved, might have been an even greater success. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 338

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• QUESTION: Dubois says the insurrection ‘might have been an even greater success’ without the early start — worth chasing what the Le Cap rising planned for August 25 would have added.