Sugar-plantation slaves were angrier and more prone to rebel than mountain coffee slaves

Evidence

These plantations were also much less often in the hands of absentee owners. Coffee planters often assigned their slaves piecework, in which they had to harvest a certain amount of coffee and would get a small monetary reward if they picked more. 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

• QUESTION: This contrast between sugar-plain and coffee-mountain slaves’ revolt intensity is worth chasing — did geography shape who joined the uprising?
• XREF: Connects forward to the late-1791 insurgency the prisoner describes, anticipating the social geography of the revolt.