French colonial legal structures prevented negotiated settlement and stoked continued war.
Evidence
In the end, although the prisoners were exchanged as planned, the negotiations broke down soon afterward. The September 24 decree made it difficult for the commissioners who brought it to override the decisions of the assembly, which technically controlled “internal” affairs in the colony. No deal materialized. If it had, it might in any case have provoked open hostilities between the “multitude” of insurgents and their leaders. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 437
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships