Rumors held Louverture secretly staged Le Cap’s burning

Evidence

Some contemporaries claimed that Louverture was in fact in Le Cap orchestrating events at the time of Leclerc’s arrival. One officer went so far as to claim that the governor had disguised himself as “a Congo negro” in order to be able to set in motion the burning of Le Cap unnoticed. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 941

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Leclerc feared Christophe would burn Le Cap and massacre whites while cultivators fled. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 938