1848
1848: The Soulouque government successfully suppresses the piquet rebellion in the South and executes their leader, Pierre Noir.
1848: The Soulouque government successfully suppresses the piquet rebellion in the South and executes their leader, Pierre Noir. This decisive military action crushed one of the most significant peasant challenges to the central state.
Source · p. 83
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 83