Proslavery colonial mobs violently attacked the abolitionist delegation in the United States

Evidence

The crowd then pillaged the quarters of the absent Dufay, declaring that “whites who sided with blacks were the guiltiest of all.” One of the five delegates was spirited off the ship by the crowd and taken hostage, though he managed to escape and rejoin the delegation later in New York. To make sure that some of them made it to Paris, the delegates split into two groups. Three of them—Belley, Dufay, and Jean-Baptiste Mills—finally made it to Bordeaux and, after being briefly imprisoned by local authorities, arrived in Paris in mid-February. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 584

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general Atlantic proslavery reaction against the Haitian Revolution’s abolitionism shown elsewhere in this book and to broader historiography of slaveholder anxiety about the French Revolution.