Leclerc lured Louverture to a meeting and arrested him by deception

Evidence

Suspecting that Louverture was secretly both in contact with and supportive of the rebel groups led by his former officers, in early June Leclerc decided to rid the island of this “gilded negro.” “Toussaint is acting in bad faith,” wrote Leclerc to Bonaparte on June 6, “just as I expected.” … The same day, some of Leclerc’s officers, using a clever pretext—that Louverture was needed to work with a local officer to end acts of banditry that had been taking place in the region where he lived—enticed him to a meeting and then overcame the general’s light guard and arrested him. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 981

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘dangerous game of deception’ ending in Louverture’s arrest parallels the entrapment-by-pretext theme running through the earlier phases of the revolution.
• DEFINE: Provides the concrete ‘gilded negro’ epithet context.