White and free-colored infighting expanded slave revolution beyond the north

Evidence

At the beginning of 1792, while much of the Northern Province had been overtaken by slave revolt, the west and the south were still relatively untouched by open insurrection. During the year, however, the compass of slave action expanded dramatically in these regions. Some slaves attacked their masters and took control of their plantations, and by the end of the year independent bands of insurgent slaves had established themselves in parts of the south. Slave revolution, initially limited to the Northern Province, now engulfed much of the colony. It was groups of whites and freecoloreds—many of them plantation owners—who laid the foundation for this expansion of slave revolution by arming slaves to fight alongside them in their violent battles against one another. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 457

Categorization

• XREF: This is the classic ‘the master’s civil war opened the door to the slave revolution’ dynamic; connects to wider Atlantic pattern where colonial elites’ factional wars armed enslaved people.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing precisely how and where whites vs free-coloreds first armed slave allies in the west/south in 1792 — the mechanism of this expansion.