British fear of colonial precedent drove them to impose racial discrimination in occupied Saint-Domingue

Evidence

The British, worried about the precedent that might otherwise be set for their own colonies, decided in mid-1793 to apply discriminatory British law in Saint-Domingue. Men of color were divested of positions in the police force and administration, and some were threatened with deportation by British officials suspicious of their loyalties. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 623

Categorization

• XREF: This pinpoints why the free-coloreds’ British alliance unraveled — British concern for their own Caribbean colonies trumped a locally advantageous racial-egalitarian policy, which drives them back toward the Republic. Directly serves the narrative arc.