1791, September–October: (The Ferocity of Jeannot and the Fall of Trou du Nord): Following the execution of Boukman, the ex-slave Jeannot assumed leadership …

1791, September–October: (The Ferocity of Jeannot and the Fall of Trou du Nord): Following the execution of Boukman, the ex-slave Jeannot assumed leadership of an army of 6,000 warriors who utilized 15 captured alarm guns as improvised artillery. Jeannot’s legendary sadism, which included hanging a French commander by a meat hook through his chest, eventually sickened fellow leaders Jean-François and Biassou, who captured and executed him in October 1791. Simultaneously, an insurgent named Candy led hommes de couleur to overrun St. Suzanne and Trou du Nord, suborning the maréchaussée into murdering their own French officers. By November, the local white population had abandoned their coffee plantations and retreated to the sea, leaving only the Capuchin Curé, père Sulpice, unmolested. The presence of priests like Sulpice within rebel lines suggests that some clergy acted as chaplains to maintain a royalist presence against the regicide regime in Paris.