Controlling all of Hispaniola prompted Louverture to seek constitutional security.

Evidence

With the defeat of Rigaud and the conquest of Santo Domingo, Louverture controlled the entire island of Hispaniola. “I have taken flight up high with the eagles,” he was heard to say during this period. “I have to be careful as I come back to earth.” He needed a rock to set himself down on, he continued: he needed a constitution that would secure his power. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 840

Categorization

• XREF: His warning about being careful coming back to earth prefigures his eventual downfall after Napoleon sent Leclerc.