Louverture distrusted French émigrés who professed support for emancipation

Evidence

Soon after Hédouville arrived in Saint-Domingue, Louverture offered him a bit of pointed advice. “There are men who talk as if they support general liberty,” he explained, “but who inside are its sworn enemies.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 754

Categorization

• XREF: Structures the coming Louverture-Hédouville rift; the colonial Metropole colony dynamic seen repeatedly in this book.