Also known as: Clandestine networks, Hidden networks of resistance, Escape networks
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Underground networks were the clandestine human systems that made marronage, communication, and later insurgency possible in Saint-Domingue. They included guides, safe stopping points, house servants, drivers, market women, ritual specialists, and maroons who moved people, information, objects, and trust across plantation boundaries.
Jerome Conspiracy 1786
The assembly's cross-plantation coordination exemplifies the underground networks that made the revolution possible
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