From the beginning of the insurrection, many slave insurgents had issued a demand for three free days a week for the slaves. In the wake of Polverel's late-1793 emancipation decree, which had maintained the sixday work week of slavery, many slaves had demanded they be given at least two days a week, rather than just one, to cultivate their own plots.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 266