The freed slaves were no indigenous population, they were as much colonists as the white frenchmen, so colonial narrative does not make sense. It was slave revo

The freed slaves were no indigenous population, they were as much colonists as the white frenchmen, so colonial narrative does not make sense. It was slave revolt, not anti-colonial revolt. Their land property rights were any more legitimate than land property rights of white frenchmen (especially those who were not slave-owners).