Historians have fabricated early documents attributing liberty demands to Louverture

Evidence

In fact, however, there simply is no concrete trace of what he put forth in 1793. All we know is that there was, in 1793, no reconciliation. It would be another year before Laveaux and Louverture would become allies instead of enemies. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 611

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which details beyond Schoelcher and C. L. R. James relied on this fabricated insertion — and does that shape wider arguments about Louverture’s early motives?