And that we know this because if it had been so bad, slaves would have just revolted, which they never did. Yeah, well, one, equating slavery to poor working conditions ignores the fact that if you work at, like, Foxconn, Foxconn doesn't get to sell your children to other corporations. And two, as you're about to see, slaves did revolt. So the unrest in what became Haiti started in 1789, when some slaves heard a rumor that the king of France had freed them. Even though it was across the ocean, word of the changes in France reached the people of Haiti, where the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, while terrifying to planters, gave hope both to free people of color and to slaves. At the same time, some petite Blancs argued that there was inadequate discrimination against blacks. They were the only people with the third estate in France, and they called for interest rates to be lowered so they could more easily pay their debts.