A review by buermann
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott

4.0

One cannot help reading about the immense amount of work the French, American, British, and Spanish empires invested into policing slave revolts -- this book is largely about their efforts to keep enslaved communities from communicating with each other in the first place -- and wonder that it wouldn't have been economically advantageous to just pay free labor and bust unions.

I suppose the broken windows fallacy driving that kind of broken windows policing -- to hyperextend a contemporary metaphor -- remains an appealing tool of oppression for less monetary reasons.