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1796-04-01

Laveaux installs Toussaint as lieutenant governor of Saint-Domingue

Haitian

In 1796 Laveaux, fearing an insurrection at Caracol, moved the seat of government from the Cap to the Petite Anse in order to protect the Cap. The women ran through the bourg crying that Laveaux had brought ships laden with chains to put the Blacks back in irons. Immediately the soldiers who had rushed to the governor’s aid fell upon his residence, demanding his head with fury. The house that Laveaux occupied was assailed and he was about to be sacrificed when Toussaint presented himself to the crowd, led it to the general storehouse, opened its doors to it, and enabled it to make sure that there were no chains. Laveaux was saved by Toussaint from the fury of the Blacks who had been misled. He went to the Cap on 1 April and installed Toussaint in the functions of lieutenant to the government of Saint Domingue.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PETITE ANSE (la).

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 387 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 387