a series of alliances and agreements, which all ended in disaster. The whites had committed the grave error of arming their slaves to fight the mulattoes. This backfired as the slaves joined the mulattoes instead. After all the agreements had been broken by the whites, the free blacks and mulattoes promised the slaves their freedom and began another alliance with the slaves. They too believed that they could control the slaves at the end. France later revoked the decree that appeared to grant rights and freedom to the blacks and placed the fate of the slaves back in the hands of the white colonists. This made things worse. The South had began the plans for their own insurrection in early January 1791. The mulattos in the pursue of their own interests for political rights as opposed to the abolition of slavery had committed their gravest error. The slaves had already planned that on January 25th they would all at the same time demand from their masters the three free days that they thought the law granted them. Upon the refusal of the white masters the revolt would begin. The beginning of the summer of the same year, the mulattos also began to revolt in light of the failure of the whites to provide the rights to "free" men as guaranteed by the decree of May 15th. Those who had made the broken accords of the past September were known as the confederates and they joined forces with the slaves and started an insurrection that included over 10,000 slaves. When the mulattoes began to fight with the white man, the black slaves sided and fought with the mulattoes. The whites used the mulattoes to attempt to get the slaves back to the plantation once the decree of 4th April 1792, reached the colonists indicating that the rights of free blacks were restored. The slaves having fought side by side with the mulattoes had "lost the habit of working, and it is thus that he got accustomed to thinking." (Fick 141). Returning to the plan...
