“…a plot was discovered, which had been formed by the negros in the town, to seize the arsenal…to join the negros of the plain,overpower the guards,and entering the town, complete the destruction of the white inhabitants.” (page 68)

In Leonora Sansay’s second letter she writes about how much the Cape as changed since her last letter and things aren’t going so well in the area she escape to. The negros were starting to attack the area. This is ironic because based on previous reading we have done in the class, the whites are normally the ones causing the destruction and taking over other’s homes. For insistence , when Christopher Columbus took the Natives lands away from them. He killed most of the Natives believing they are savages and needed to be killed or converted. In other words he wanted to get rid of the Native inhabitants.

So now that the negros are the one’s causing destruction. Sansay writes “complete the destruction of the white inhabitants” to show the plan the negros are trying to accomplish. The negros are trying to took over the whites’ land and make it their own. They don’t want to be seen as the lower classes anymore. In a way they are showing the whites that whites aren’t the superior class. They too can conquer land.