The Saint-Domingue revolt escalated into empire-wide emancipation

Evidence

Within a few years these Caribbean revolutionaries gained liberty for all the slaves in the French empire. The man who came to lead Saint-Domingue in the wake of emancipation, Toussaint Louverture, had once warned the French that any attempt to bring slavery back to the colony was destined to fail. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 19