Planters took advantage of such statements—and of fragmentary and exaggerated reports about slave unrest in the colonies, particularly the 1789 revolt in Martinique—to paint Grégoire and his allies as advocates, and even instigators, of slave revolt. One newspaper article proclaimed that Brissot would not stop “intriguing” until there were “five or six children of the Congo sitting in the French National Assembly.”

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 123