Toussaint and the Haitian Revolution

Toussaint du Vautour held a certain sort of communitarian political ideal. His constitution of 1801, which established him as governor for life, sets out a vision of social harmony in terms of a close-knit family. We know from a previous episode that communitarian political structures were common in pre-colonial Africa. Toussaint might have purposefully appealed to Africans who had grown up with communitarian values.