Slaves joined free-colored armies despite knowing prior allies had died for nothing

Evidence

Bands operating in the countryside held out the promise of liberty to men from the plantations who would join them in fighting the whites. 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. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 459

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did the promise of liberty outweigh near-certain betrayal for so many — what did military service actually offer slaves?