Louverture had good reasons to be suspicious of the solidity of the Republic and its policy of emancipation. Sonthonax's hold on the Northern Province was tenuous, and, like many others in mid-1793, Louverture probably thought that the French Republic was heading toward defeat in Europe as well. There was no reason to join the losing side.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 258