Some claimed Louverture disguised himself to stage the burning of Le Cap.
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
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- CANDY: A wild anecdote — the mastermind disguised as a Congo negro to burn his own capital — pure conversation material.
Related
- Rumors held Louverture secretly staged Le Cap’s burning (similarity 0.96)
- Louverture used infiltration and feigned surrender as siege tactics (similarity 0.80)
- Leclerc lured Louverture to a meeting and arrested him by deception (similarity 0.79)
- Leclerc believed deporting Louverture would rob the blacks of their leadership. (similarity 0.79)