Colonists’ deputation to Port-Républicain demands the concordat and is nearly killed

On 7 September 1791, after the battle of Pernier, the royalist whites of the Croix-des-Bouquets made with the affranchis camped at the Trou-Caïman a concordat that obliged the contracting parties to carry out the national decrees in favor of the affranchis, without restriction or protest. The concordat was signed at the Croix-des-Bouquets. The enslavers were represented there by Messrs. de Jumécourt, Lespinasse, Drouillard and Tarbé Lamarre, and the men of color by Beauvais, Rigaud, Daguin the son, Barthélemy, Joseph Labastille, Daguin the elder, Pierre Café and Pierre Pèlerin. The affranchis came to camp at the Croix-des-Bouquets. The red-pompon whites of Port-Républicain sent to the Croix-des-Bouquets deputies who signed, in the church of this bourg, on 11 September, a concordat with the affranchis. On 10 October a deputation of the colonists of the Croix-des-Bouquets, sent by Hanus de Jumécourt, came to Port-Républicain, demanding the execution of this concordat; the deputies could obtain nothing, and were even nearly slaughtered in the streets. For their part, the affranchis came…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Croix-des-Bouquets (la).