Louverture mandated child labor in a bid to stamp out idleness.

Evidence

“As soon as a child can walk,” Louverture declared, “he must be put to work on the plantations doing some useful task.” “In a well-ordered state,” he explained, “idleness is the source of all disorders.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 882

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