Louverture repatriated exiled white planters and pressed for return of their sequestered estates

Evidence

When in August 1795 Louverture captured the Mirabalais region from the British, he found “magnificent plantations” in the “best possible state” where the ex-slaves were “working well.” In the town were several hundred white planters from other parts of Saint-Domingue who had gathered under the protection of the British. Louverture gave them passports to return to their homes and wrote to Laveaux requesting permission to give them back their properties, which had been sequestered by the Republic. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 653