Slave leader Hyacinthe restored plantations and sugar production on the Cul-de-Sac plain.

Evidence

The mass mobilization of slaves severely disrupted slavery and encouraged new uprisings throughout the region, but the leadership of Hyacinthe shaped and limited slave action. He established himself on a plantation, promising to bring his followers back to the plantations. Hyacinthe invited the planter Hanus de Jumecourt—the architect of the first Concordat between whites and free-coloreds, signed in 1791—to return to Croix-des- Bouquets and head the police force there. Using his considerable influence and the threat of violence, Hyacinthe oversaw the partial reestablishment of sugar production on the plain and helped preserve the plantations of the west from the destruction that had occurred in the north. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 467

Categorization

• XREF: A slave revolutionary policing plantations for a white planter echoes how Toussaint later disciplined laborers; also parallels the concordat politics sketched in earlier chapters.
• DEEPTHINKING: The slave leader who both leads an uprising and reestablishes plantation order, policing other slaves, complicates the binary revolutionary-vs-loyalist framing of the whole revolution.