Slave revolts sought to transform society, not merely join it

Evidence

The slave revolts thus were not only about inclusion or incorporation into Euro-dominant social orders and civil societies but the very transfiguration of the given and the commonplace, of civil society and the state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 88

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1803) seeking independence from enslaving French rule might be said to mark the initiation also of antiracist movements. Embracing the racial ambiguities of both American and French Revolutions regarding human and political equality and the Rights of Man, abolitionist slave revolts followed the Haitian example throughout the European orbit, marking most of the nineteenth century. … The slave revolts thus were not only about inclusion or incorporation into Euro-dominant social orders and civil societies but the very transfiguration of the given and the commonplace, of civil society and the state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 87

Categorization

• BMF: The claim that revolt demands transfiguring the whole social order rather than joining it echoes Okonkwo’s violence in Things Fall Apart — not a perfect resonance, but the refusal of incorporation into the colonial-Euro order is strong.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 88; David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 87