Commissioners sent to end the insurrection instead embraced its demand for liberty

Evidence

A new set of commissioners was sent to Saint-Domingue to apply this decree, and given the power to dissolve the existing assemblies and oversee the formation of new, racially integrated ones. … Unlike those who preceded them, however, they would use their power against that of the white planters of Saint-Domingue and ally themselves with the newly enfranchised free-coloreds. But in the end the commissioners would carry out a mission very different from that which they had been handed. Accompanied by a law and by a convoy of troops meant to put an end to the slave insurrection, they would instead end up embracing it and its demand for liberty. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 447

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the coming turning point where French authorities align with slave revolutionaries — pivotal to the narrative arc the reader is tracking.