Louverture’s 1801 constitution responded directly to Bonaparte’s rise to power.

Evidence

In 1801 Louverture embodied his control over the colony in a charter for his regime: a constitution. The document built on the foundation of his labor decrees, but it was also a response to dramatic changes taking place across the Atlantic. The French government was now in the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte. Like Louverture, Bonaparte had taken advantage of the revolutionary period to make a vertiginous ascent from the margins of his society—he was born in Corsica, an island recently annexed by France—to its summit. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 851

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the parallel-career framing common in studies of Napoleon and revolutionary leaders; Louverture’s Corsica-born mirror of Napoleon echoes the wider Atlantic revolutionary moment being traced.