1670–1682: (The Expansion of Settlements and First Insurrection of the Enslaved): Under Ogeron and his successor, de Pouancey, French settlements spread acro…

1670–1682: (The Expansion of Settlements and First Insurrection of the Enslaved): Under Ogeron and his successor, de Pouancey, French settlements spread across the North, West, and South, eventually making the buccaneer nest of Cayonne obsolete. In 1670, the settlement of Cap François was established as a refuge for Calvinists, while the fertile Cul-de-Sac plain reached 1,300 inhabitants by 1671. This era of expansion also saw the first recorded rising of the enslaved in 1679, led by a formerly Spanish-owned man named Padrejean near Port-Margot. De Pouancey used buccaneers to crush the revolt and kill the “black outlaws,” yet their memory survived as an early omen of revolutionary potential. By the time de Pouancey died in 1682, the colony’s transition from a hideout for freebooters to a structured society of 6,658 residents was complete.