Louverture’s nephew Moïse openly defied his labor policies out of solidarity with the cultivators.

Evidence

The youthful Moïse responded by declaring that, despite his uncle’s orders, he could not “resolve himself” to be the “executioner of my color.” “It is always in the name of the interests of the metropole that he scolds me,” he explained, “but his interests are those of the whites, and I will love the whites only when they have given me back the eye they took from me in battle.” In addition to rejecting the use of violence against cultivators, Moïse was assiduous in his payment of them. He also advocated selling small plots of land to subaltern officers and even to soldiers, going against Louverture’s stated aim of preventing the division of plantations. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 876

Categorization

• XREF: Moïse’s refusal to enforce labor discipline against his own people parallels tensions in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and postcolonial loyalty conflicts.