Hédouville’s expulsion freed Louverture to consolidate his policy of welcoming planters back

Evidence

In 1798 the French naturalist Michel Etienne Descourtilz arrived in Saint- Domingue. He was not alone: many planters were returning to the colony “like bees,” hoping to recover their lost fortunes. It was a time of optimism for many whites: the blacks were, because of the “orders of Toussaint Louverture,” more “politically submissive” than they had been before— and would be later. Louverture had been actively welcoming white planters back into the colony from the beginning of his service to the Republic, but the victory over the British and the expulsion of Hédouville allowed him to consolidate and expand this policy. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 793