Louverture governed freed laborers as soldiers under martial discipline

Evidence

Louverture militarized plantation labor, applying the ideals of discipline and the methods of punishment used in the armed forces to the colony as a whole. Just as soldiers obeyed their officers, cultivators must obey their superiors. Just as soldiers were court-martialed when they failed in their duties, those who failed in their plantation labor would be punished. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 845