Louverture’s land decree created a two-class society of owners and landless workers.

Evidence

Louverture outlawed the sale of small plots of land under fifty carreaux, or just over three acres. Any sale of larger plots, furthermore, had to be approved by the local administrations under his control, who were to monitor how it was used. The decree made it impossible for relatively poor men and women to acquire land. There were to be only wealthy landowners and landless workers, with nothing in between. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 848