Cultivators saw their surrender as a timed cease-fire awaiting disease’s toll on French troops.

Evidence

According to Lacroix, the “spirit” among the cultivators was also still rebellious, and they said that their “submission” was in fact only a cease-fire until the month of August, when many had predicted that the onset of disease would lead to the “annihilation of the entire European army sent to Saint-Domingue.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 978