How do the historical details in this passage support the authors’ claim? The text describes a revolt in detail to show that enslaved people took action against their treatment on sugar plantations. The text illustrates the difficult conditions that L’Ouverture and other workers faced while enslaved in Saint Domingue. The text uses primary sources to emphasize how absentee plantation owners had little control over their plantations. The text shows that the Haitian slave revolt gave slaveholders cause to increase the number of enslaved laborers on plantations.