After years of costly occupation, British forces negotiated their withdrawal from Saint-Domingue with Toussaint Louverture. An agreement dated 31 August 1798 secured evacuation of the remaining British positions and helped lift the threat of renewed attack. The negotiations demonstrated the diplomatic power of a formerly enslaved commander and the strength of the emancipated army. British withdrawal was a military and political victory for people defending abolition, although plantation labor controls remained in force under the revolutionary government.
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What did the 31 August 1798 agreement secure?
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Toussaint negotiated the evacuation of British forces from the colony.
Toussaint negotiated British withdrawal from Saint-Domingue in 1798.
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An agreement in August secured evacuation of the remaining positions.