Slave insurgent leaders rejected republicanism out of loyalty to kings

Evidence

The rebel leaders responded with a proud statement of their loyalty to the king of Spain and to all kings. Kings had ruled since the “beginning of the world,” and if the king of France had been “lost,” the king of Spain remained, and had given them his protection. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 550

Categorization

• XREF: Their royalist worldview parallels the ‘Papa King’ loyalty noted in the same chapter and contrasts with the earlier ideological reading in Home Boy about allegiance and belonging.