White colonists themselves petitioned for general emancipation by 1793.

Evidence

With the news of the uprising arriving in Paris, the arguments in favor of racial equality at last carried the day. Brissot and some of his allies gained control of the Colonial Ministry. They blamed the planters for the revolt and, publicizing the overtures some of them had made to the British, painted them as dangerous counterrevolutionaries. The only way to save the colony, they argued successfully, was to give political rights to the free-coloreds. Their victory was facilitated by the increasingly radical tone of the Revolution in France, and by the looming possibility of war with Great Britain, but it was driven by the events in Saint-Domingue, and based on the principle of the “Concordats” signed between whites and free-coloreds there. The argument about free-coloreds’ political rights, as Robin Blackburn notes, “had been transformed by the sight of the smoke rising from burnt-out plantation buildings and cane fields.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 443 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Insurgent leaders escalated their demands from emancipation to general liberty by 1792; The threat of slave revolt forced whites to grant free-coloreds political rights; The slave uprising drove France to grant political rights to free-coloreds — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 443 (+1 more)

Related

• The slave uprising drove France to grant political rights to free-coloreds (similarity 0.86)
• White colonists argued that even free-colored rights would shatter slave obedience (similarity 0.83)
• White colonists blamed the Enlightenment for inspiring the slave revolt. (similarity 0.83)
• White planters blamed abolitionists, not slavery, for inciting the revolt. (similarity 0.82)
• The slave uprising in Saint-Domingue shifted the French revolution into granting racial equality (similarity 0.82)
• Saint-Domingue whites built a racist democratization that excluded free people of color (similarity 0.82)
• White observers denied slaves an independent political agency in their own revolt (similarity 0.82)
• French commissioners initially backed slavery as necessary to colonial survival (similarity 0.80)
• White colonists preferred colonial autonomy over loyalty to revolutionary France (similarity 0.80)
• The revolution began as violent colonial racial conflict before the slave uprising (similarity 0.80)
• The uprising’s meaning escalated from colonial protest to abolition of slavery (similarity 0.80)
• British capitulation stripped free people of color of their full racial equality (similarity 0.80)
• Free-coloreds framed slave revolts as leverage for their own political rights (similarity 0.79)
• France reversed its May 15 concession to free people of color (similarity 0.79)
• White and free-colored infighting expanded slave revolution beyond the north (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The threat of slave revolt forced whites to grant free-coloreds political rights #contradicts (0.70)
• The slave uprising drove France to grant political rights to free-coloreds #complicates (0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 443