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Actually, the slave revolt which started in 1791 and lasted till 1803 was fairly successful in the beginning over large parts of Haiti. It was pretty bloody from the getgo (not unusual for a slave revolt I'd surmise). Then a series of intrigue commenced between Tousssaint, Dessalines, and Christophe amongst others all rivaling against one another and allying with surviving whites and mulattos and being invaded or interfered with by Robespierre, Napolean and the English and even the Spaniards. In the end when it was essentially over by 1804...Toussaint was finished and all but a handful of whites were gone or dead....as well as a slew of mulattos who had allied with the whites and many africans as well.

And yes the French tried to restore slavery twice after promising Toussaint they would not and that did prompt more and more reprisals.

There were also a number of massacres in parts of Haiti against mulattos as late as the early 1900s in places like Jacmel and Jeremy which were always mulatto strongholds and rather remote places btw. The mulattos of course have done their fair share as well.

It is a most unusual place. I have never lived anywhere where shades of color are so delineated....Brasil has a bit of that.
The Desnoes family in Jamaica who founded the Red Stripe beer company amongst many other products were originally whites who fled from the slave revolt in Haiti in the 1790s...I was "involved" with one of the greatx4 granddaughters back in the 80s. She was a professor at Barnard in NYC. Their family history was fascinating.