1815
1815: Roberjot Lartigue published a formal report in France that retrospectively connected the various plots of the enslaved in St. Thomas and Trinidad to Haitian e
1815: Roberjot Lartigue published a formal report in France that retrospectively connected the various plots of the enslaved in St. Thomas and Trinidad to Haitian emissaries. His account highlighted the enduring fear among former colonists that the “contagion” of revolution would destroy the entire Caribbean plantation system.
Source · p. 79
Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 79