Bonaparte’s emancipation promises to Louverture were probably deliberate deception

Evidence

The declarations “in favor of the liberty of the blacks of Saint-Domingue,” then, were perhaps in the end “nothing but pure diplomacy, trickery, shrewdness, production, technique, and pretense” whose aim was to gain from Louverture through “peaceful means” what the French government “feared having to take from him by force.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 919

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of false peace preludes before catastrophic attack — echoes the Pearl Harbor and Munich patterns.