Goureau. Concordat of 19 October signed between white deputies and deputies of color.

Caradeux was not discouraged: in spite of the opposition and threats of Praloto, he had commissioners named on 19 October, who went to the Goureau plantation to discuss there the articles of a new treaty with the freedmen. There were twenty-seven white deputies, presided over by Caradeux the elder, representing the parishes of Port-au-Prince, Saint-Marc, Léogane, the Mirebalais, the Gonaïves, the Petite-Rivière, the Croix-des-Bouquets, Petit-Goâve, Jacmel and the Arcahaie. The deputies of the citizens of color, presided over by Pinchinat, were thirty-six in number; they represented the same parishes.

On 19 October, the day of the meeting, a new concordat was signed at Goureau, by which that of 11 September was recognized as lawful and in conformity with the constitution. It was further stipulated there that the white citizens would recall their deputies who sat in the Colonial Assembly, and would ask Blanchelande to pronounce its dissolution. On Sunday, 23 October, deputations of whites and freedmen went to Damiens, where the mayor of Port-au-Prince, Citizen Lérembourg, read them the concordat of the 19th. On both sides they swore to uphold the treaty in all its terms.