Louverture warned that black numerical dominance would turn French repression against blacks collectively

Evidence

A few months later Louverture issued a similar proclamation to rebellious cultivators in the nearby parish of Saint-Louis du Nord. What would the French people say, he demanded, when they learned that rather than being thankful for freedom, the ex-slaves had “soaked their hands in the blood” of France’s children? How could they dare claim that France wanted to reestablish slavery when the nation had sacrificed its flourishing commerce and its most prosperous factories to bring them liberty? “Be very careful, my brothers; there are more blacks in the colony than there are men of color and whites combined, and if there are disorders it is against us that the Republic will act,” he warned. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 662

Categorization

• CANDY: Fascinating chilling detail: the numeric logic that would ultimately underpin the massacres later in the revolution was already articulated by Louverture as a warning.