Slave recruits knew they risked death in joining the civil war yet joined anyway
Evidence
Slaves had reason to be wary of such promises. Many probably knew of what happened to the Swiss—the slave insurgents who had joined with the free-coloreds in the early 1790s—most of whom had found death instead of liberty. Nevertheless many slaves responded. Sometimes they were given little choice. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 459
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Slaves joined free-colored armies despite knowing prior allies had died for nothing (similarity 0.91)
- White planters armed and freed their own slaves by late 1791 (similarity 0.79)
- Free-coloreds recruited rebel slaves, named the Swiss, for military service (similarity 0.79)
- Enslaved people resisted slavery through collaboration, endurance, and terror. (similarity 0.79)
- Spain recruited self-liberated slave fighters as hard-to-control auxiliaries (similarity 0.79)
- Both colonial factions armed slaves, wrongly assuming slavery could survive (similarity 0.79)
- Slaveholders committed far more atrocities than revolting slaves did (similarity 0.79)
- Desperate commissioners granted citizenship to any slave who fought for the Republic (similarity 0.78)
- Armed recruits would later turn on both white and free-colored masters (similarity 0.78)
- White and free-colored factions spread slave revolution by arming slaves (similarity 0.78)
- Slave rebels sought freedom through alliance with France, not secession (similarity 0.78)