Slaveholders committed far more atrocities than revolting slaves did

Evidence

Some slaves collaborated in the master’s violence, driven by the fear of becoming its target or by the hope of channeling it elsewhere. Many other slaves simply avoided it and survived as best they could, following orders and trying desperately to work tiny plots of land to feed themselves and their families, crafting small spaces of comfort and community. Some, however, responded by sowing terror among their masters. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dessalines ordered massacres of whites fearing they would restore slavery; Slave rebels committed far fewer atrocities than the slaveholding regimes did; Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183

Related

• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror (similarity 0.89)
• Enslaved people resisted slavery through collaboration, endurance, and terror. (similarity 0.87)
• Slave drivers balanced complicity with the master against leadership of the enslaved community (similarity 0.85)
• Violence by insurgent slaves was no greater than that of other revolutions (similarity 0.85)
• Slavery’s control system relied on a pervasive terror of resistance against masters (similarity 0.84)
• Slaves used poison to dominate and humiliate their masters (similarity 0.82)
• French atrocities pushed wavering slaves into joining the revolt (similarity 0.82)
• Slave rebels committed far fewer atrocities against whites than slavers committed against them (similarity 0.82)
• The revolt was led by the most favored slaves, shocking planters (similarity 0.82)
• Slave rebels committed far fewer atrocities than the slaveholding regimes did (similarity 0.82)
• Enslaved people defied authorities to maintain their own burial grounds (similarity 0.82)
• Slaves capitalized on every crisis among their exploiters to rebel. (similarity 0.81)
• Slave rebels rarely committed atrocities that whites routinely inflicted on them. (similarity 0.81)
• Both colonial factions armed slaves, wrongly assuming slavery could survive (similarity 0.80)
• The revolt’s most favored slaves often led it against their masters (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror #expands (0.55) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183