In a few cases, slave insurgents explicitly phrased their demands in the language of Republican rights. When a group of slaves were questioned about the meetings they had attended just before the insurrection began, they declared that “they wanted to enjoy the liberty they are entitled to by the Rights of Man.” The next day several “leaders of those mobs” were “taken and interrogated,” and their answer “was like the first received.”

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 155