The uprising so depleted plantations that surviving whites had to rent other people’s slaves

Evidence

One wanted ten to twelve slaves to bring to a region “that had not been burnt,” while another was seeking twenty to twenty-five slaves to harvest coffee for a few months. One desperate planter who had “armed the few negro males who had not joined the brigands” to defend his property, only to have most of these recruited for missions against the insurgents, offered money to any men who were willing to go back to his plantation with him. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 519

Categorization

• CANDY: The irony of a desperate planter arming his enslaved men only to lose them to anti-insurgent missions is a compact, tweetable vignette of revolution-era breakdown.