Original sentence: He then helped transform the insurgency into a revolutionary movement, which by 1800 had turned Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous slave colony of the time, into the first free colonial society to have explicitly rejected race as the basis of social ranking.He was deported to France, where he died in 1803.In 1802 he was forced to resign by forces sent by Napoleon Bonaparte to restore French authority in the former colony.The French had lost two-thirds of forces sent to the island in an attempt to suppress the revolution; most died of yellow fever.Though Louverture did not sever ties with France, his actions in 1800 constituted a de facto autonomous colony
Edited sentence: He then helped transform the insurgency into a revolutionary movement, which by 1800 had turned Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous slave colony in history, into the first free society to have explicitly rejected race as the basis of social ranking.He was despicably captured and deported to France, locked into the freezing prison of Fort Joux where he died in 1803, basically starved and frozen to death.In 1802 he was tricked into a meeting by forces sent by Napoleon Bonaparte to restore French authority in the former colony.The French had lost two-thirds of forces sent to the island in an attempt to suppress the revolution.Though Louverture did not sever ties with France despite their treachery and hypocrisy, his actions in 1800 constituted a de facto autonomous colony.To place Toussaint L'Ouverture in perspective, this former slave defeated the elite armies of France twice, of Spain, and of Great Britain, inflict<reing on the British the most expensive military campaign in their history up to World War I