Gwendolyn Midlo Hall on The 1795 Conspiracy in Pointe Coupee
However, it was this multiracial population that “spread the latest news about the revolution throughout the ports of the Americas” (347). Which explains why in the archival document there are several slave testimonies that talk about an official order (document) that said slaves were going to be set free. The document also states in several testimonies, that after the slaves killed all of the whites, they would then make the white women and young girls their servants.
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