Different French treatment of Haiti??

As I understand it in OTL France essentially betrayed those who led a slave revolt and even got large quantities of money to compensate slave holders.

Could something different have happened. Could they even have managed to help liberate places like Jamaica and Barbados from british slaveholders?
 
Unlikely, considering that the British had a more powerful navy. To be honest, I'm a little suprised the British never took Haiti after the revolt.
 
Unlikely, considering that the British had a more powerful navy. To be honest, I'm a little suprised the British never took Haiti after the revolt.

"They tried and failed?"

"No, they tried and died."

Britain did try to take the islands and failed. Just as it failed in its invasion of Argentina and Uruguay, was defeated at Walcheren, etc.

One thought would be for a more radical France to encourage slave uprisings in the American South or the other Caribbean islands. Not sure if they could succeed, but anything that cripples British commerce would be worth a shot.
 
If Napoleon wasn't the racist prick he was, and had a better grasp of why and how Toussaint had defeated Maitland, he may renounce the whole idea about Leclerc's fiasco and actually treat Toussaint as one of his marshals of sorts. It would help if Josephine's family hadn't interests in Haitian platantions too.
At this point, Hait may actually a place from where slave revolts in Jamaica and other British islands can be supported and the British naval dominance challenged (albeit not reversed or destroyed).
Toussaint was a pretty decent guy and could have run the colony without the subsequent nastiness, that was for a good part a consequence of the ill-fated Leclerc's expedition. Also, butterflies can be immediately perceptible. This would affect the Louisiana Purchase and leave a sizeable community of Polish exiles in France (IIRC something like 6000 of them died in Haiti with Leclerc's army).
 
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