Louverture blamed wartime gender imbalance for women’s immorality fueling disorder

Evidence

The girls became prostitutes, always ready to “follow the urgings of the first conspirator who preaches disorder, assassination, and pillage.” Indeed, because the war had killed “many more men than women,” the towns were full of women whose “existence is based wholly on libertinage,” and who incited others to “banditry.” The police and officers of the colony must constantly keep their eyes open and be ready to punish all such “vile” and “dangerous” individuals. Louverture also declared that any married officers or administrators who accepted “concubines” in their houses or who were unmarried but “lived publicly with several women” would be fired. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 881

Categorization

• XREF: Louverture using female sexuality as a scapegoat for political disorder connects to the reader’s article on moral panics over ‘immodesty’ — this is an authoritarian, racialized variant worth noting. — connects to: Louverture blamed the revolt on parental negligence and irreligion — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 880; Wartime sexual coercion created a postwar moral crisis driven by demographic imbalance — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1112; Control of women’s sexuality intensifies when communities feel they are losing control — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 325 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Louverture blamed the revolt on parental negligence and irreligion — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 880; Wartime sexual coercion created a postwar moral crisis driven by demographic imbalance — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1112; Control of women’s sexuality intensifies when communities feel they are losing control — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 325 (+1 more)