Toussaint promulgates the Constitution on July 7,…
July 1801 CE
It makes him Governor-General for Life with near absolute powers and the possibility of choosing his successor.
However, Toussaint is careful enough as to not explicitly declare Saint-Domingue's independence, immediately acknowledging that it is just a single colony of the French Empire in Article 1 of the Constitution.
Article 3 of the constitution states: "There cannot exist slaves [in Saint-Domingue], servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born, live and die free and French."
The constitution guarantees equal opportunity and equal treatment under the law for all races, but also confirms Toussaint's policies of forced labor and the importation of workers through the slave trade.
Toussaint is not willing to compromise the dominant Vodou faith for Catholicism.
Article 6 clearly states that "the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman faith shall be the only publicly professed faith."