The revolt’s speed forced terrified white colonists to abandon the plantations for Le Cap

Evidence

Refugees from the northern plain were soon pouring into Le Cap. The town’s officials issued an order preventing all ships in the harbor from leaving—to keep the sailors around for the defense of the town, and to ensure that there was somewhere for the inhabitants to go if it failed. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 327

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The revolt’s arrival plunged Le Cap into terror and reprisals against slaves.; White planters abandoned ruined plantations whose slaves had joined the insurgency. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 518; United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The revolt’s arrival plunged Le Cap into terror and reprisals against slaves.; White planters abandoned ruined plantations whose slaves had joined the insurgency. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 518; United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations