This chapter discusses French historian Marie-Jeanne Rossignol’s argument that the Richmond Enquirer’s fear of Virginia slave revolts was revealed when it omitted parts of Haiti’s 1805 Constitution, including the permanent abolition of slavery. Ritchie’s actual motives in excising certain parts of the Constitution when printing it remain obscure. It is possible but unlikely that Ritchie feared that publishing the 1805 Constitution in full would precipitate a slave revolt, an inference that implies that Ritchie thought that the slaves did not know about a free Haiti’s existence. After exterminating the remaining white French population, Dessalines pursued a policy of conciliatory diplomacy toward European powers and their colonies, making no effort to overthrow the institution of slavery in the Caribbean.