French women writing from 1790 to 1825 responded to uprisings in Haiti in 1791 by contextualizing violence in relation to the horrors of slavery. The juxtaposition of "Black" and "Terror" echoes the similar juxtaposition in The Black Jacobins, which the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James published in 1938. The writers considered are Germaine de Staël, Olympe de Gouges, Claire de Duras, and Sophie Doin.