Louverture tied emancipation to continued plantation labor, clashing with ex-slaves’ aspirations

Evidence

Even as he built his army of ex-slaves, Louverture went to work coaxing those who were not soldiers back to their plantations. Building on the policies of Sonthonax and Polverel, Louverture committed himself to forcing former slaves to keep working on the plantations. The decision put him in conflict with the aspirations of many of the newly freed people of the colony. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 638

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader contradiction of abolition tied to forced labor—parallel themes in the reader’s other histories of emancipation and serfdom.