Sugar-plantation slaves proved far more enraged in 1791 revolt.

Evidence

A prisoner of the insurgents in late 1791 claimed to have noticed a contrast between those who had been slaves on the sugar plantations of the plain, who were “enraged,” and those who had been slaves in the mountains, who were less ferocious. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 171

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s goal of tracing the narrative arc: the harshest labor condition producing the most radical insurgents echoes a pattern of plantation-regime differences driving revolt.
  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this reported contrast between plains and mountain slaves bear out in later phases of the revolution?