What advantages did the haitian slaves have over the french soldiers?

Independent government was generated in Haiti, but the country's society hanging deeply contrived patterns prove under French colonial rule. Since many planters had provided for the mixed-race children they had by African women, by giving them education and (for males) training and entree into French military, the mulatto nodding who along with the well-heeled freedman had been orchestrators of the revolution became the elite of Haitian society after the war's end.