Slaves in the western province took over plantations rather than destroying them

Evidence

Like slaves elsewhere in the Artibonite region, and throughout the Western Province, they did not destroy or abandon the plantations, but they began to make them their own. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 456

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later phase where Haiti’s plantation economy persisted under new leadership — echoes the post-1804 labor coercion debates. — connects to: Displaced Rhodesian settlers justified ownership by erasing prior African agency — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 74