Planters’ labor ideology defeated in Paris was quietly reinstated in the colony by Hédouville.

Evidence

In July Hédouville ordered all cultivators to sign three-year contracts with those in charge of the plantations to which they were “attached.” Louverture would later write that many in Saint-Domingue were surprised to see that the principles of Vaublanc, defeated in Paris, were nevertheless being applied in Saint-Domingue. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 769

Categorization

• SEED: An angle: defeated metropolitan policy positions often get smuggled back into practice through colonial bureaucrats with wide interpretive discretion.