In July Hédouville ordered all cultivators to sign three-year contracts with those in charge of the plantations to which they were "attached." Louverture would later write that many in Saint-Domingue were surprised to see that the principles of Vaublanc, defeated in Paris, were nevertheless being applied in Saint-Domingue. But initially Louverture seems to have approved of the agent's regulations.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 318