Classical histories hold that Dessalines betrayed Charles Belair, Toussaint's nephew, to the French in 1802 and had him shot, which makes it hard to explain why the same guerrilla chiefs and generals handed him command of the independence army six weeks later. De Young resolves the puzzle with three documents recovered from the Rochambeau papers at the University of Florida. They show that the original denunciation of Belair came from Faustin Repussard, a national guard commander at Verettes, three weeks before the arrest, and that Belair was taken by a detachment sent on Jablonowski's orders, with Repussard complaining that he had been forbidden to fire and asking Rochambeau for protection from his own superiors. Read alongside Leclerc's shifting reports to Paris, the episode suggests that publishing Dessalines's covering letter served to isolate him, and that French suspicion of his loyalty had already begun.