1798-00-00: (Louverture Negotiates a Secret Treaty With Great Britain, in Which the British Renounce Their Territorial Claims in Haiti in Exchange for Louver…

1798-00-00: (Louverture Negotiates a Secret Treaty With Great Britain, in Which the British Renounce Their Territorial Claims in Haiti in Exchange for Louverture’s Promise Not to Export Revolution to British Colonies): In 1798, Louverture negotiated a secret treaty with Great Britain in which the British renounced their territorial claims in Haiti. In exchange, Louverture promised not to export the revolutionary example to Britain’s slave colonies in the Caribbean. It was a deal that revealed Louverture’s strategic pragmatism: he sacrificed revolutionary solidarity with the enslaved populations of Jamaica and Barbados in order to secure Haiti’s borders and eliminate a military threat. The British, for their part, had learned the hard way that occupying a colony in the midst of a slave revolution while yellow fever ravaged their troops was a losing proposition. They were willing to cede the territory in exchange for the assurance that the contagion of Black liberation would remain confined to a single island.