Toussaint likely chose the name Louverture himself for its hidden meaning of new beginning

Evidence

As with the Bois-Caïman ceremony, it is difficult—probably impossible—to separate reality from legend in the story of Toussaint, including how he took on the name Louverture—“the opening.” Isaac Louverture attributed the name to a comment by Etienne Polverel. After Louverture conquered Dondon and Marmelade for the Spanish in late 1793, Isaac wrote, the commissioner admiringly noted that his enemy could make “an opening anywhere.” … Perhaps, though, rather than tracing its origin to the comment of a white administrator, it is safer to assume that the man who ultimately made it famous chose it for himself and that, with “its cryptic connotations of a new beginning,” it had a particular, still hidden, meaning for him. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 592

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• QUESTION: What could Louverture’s ‘still hidden meaning’ of the name actually have been?