Freed people feared the French invasion would re-enslave them

Evidence

In July 1802, from Le Cap, Marie-Rose Masson wrote to her former master the marquis de Gallifet, the onetime owner of the richest plantations in the colony. Masson had purchased her freedom from Gallifet’s manager, Odeluc, but the transaction was not made official before he was killed in the 1791 insurrection. Masson feared that if the old order returned, she would again be a slave. She pleaded with Gallifet to acknowledge the freedom she had gained before emancipation. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 985