A Mosquito Is the Perfect Animal to Overthrow Your Obligors

In the 17 thirties and forties, enslaved people would devastate crops. There were whole sections of newspapers dedicated to fugitive slave advertisements. A man named macandal, who is thought to have been african born, was using this network of enslaved people to do so. He eventually ends up being captured, and he's burned at the stake in 17 58. But just as they are kind of trying to set him on fire, local legend has it that he transformed himself into a mosquito and flew away. "There's nothing more frustrating to a white explore in tha equatorial country than in mosquitoes"