The northern parishes where revolt began had overwhelming slave majorities.

Evidence

Furthermore, the towns harbored 26 percent of the colony’s whites, who made up only 4 percent of the rural population. A few examples from the northern plain highlight the startling imbalance in the population. In the parish of Limbé there were 300 whites, 200 freecoloreds, and 5,000 slaves, while in the neighboring parish of Acul, where the 1791 insurrection would begin, there were 3,500 slaves and 130 whites. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 115

Categorization

• XREF: The slim white minority in the parish of Acul — the spark of the 1791 insurrection — directly foreshadows the revolution’s opening and rewards the narrative arc the reader is building.