Slave-coined social categories deepened white divisions that fed the revolt

Evidence

The vocabulary of the slaves was eventually adopted by everyone on the island, and in turn helped to “aggravate the tensions between whites.” In this way, slaves’ interpretations of the fissures in their masters’ society provided categories that deepened them, laying kindling that would help set the colony alight. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 132

Categorization

• XREF: Categories that deepen the divisions they describe — like shibboleths and group markers — tie into the class-identity signaling thread of the Immodesty article.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: how the language of the oppressed gets adopted by the powerful and thereby sharpens ruling-class fractures.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 132