Malary. Landing near the Ravine Sèche.

A few days later Caradeux and Praloto, masters of the Croix-des-Bouquets, tried to have all the mulattoes of the Arcahaie arrested and to seize all authority in that quarter. As masters of the Arcahaie they would cut the communications between the mulattoes of Saint-Marc and those of the Cul-de-Sac. After the treaty of Goureau, the freedmen of the Arcahaie had made a concordat with the whites. They had named Cameau captain-general and Juste Chanlatte major-general. The ablest among them, Lapointe, was the soul of their operations. The whites had named Canteloup their captain-general. Caradeux incited the municipality, composed for the most part of whites, to annul the concordat and drive out the men of color. Lapointe, discovering this project, raised the plantation gangs on 22 March from the hatte Aubry to the far end of Les Vases. The freedmen at once abandoned the town and withdrew to the dike of the Matheux. On Lapointe’s orders the enslaved cut the throats of the whites of the countryside, entered the Arcahaie, and killed most of the members of the municipality, who were deliberating on the means to be taken to rid themselves of the mulattoes. The insurgents pitilessly massacred every colonist they could reach and pillaged every house except two, which belonged to enslavers they called good whites. Lapointe set out for Saint-Marc followed by some thirty colonists who had escaped the massacre in the town. When he arrived, on 28 March, at the Ravine Sèche, near the landing of Malary, he let these unfortunates, who had counted on his generosity, be sacrificed by Gauthier, commandant of Saint-Marc, to whom he declared that he did not know them. A few days later, when the massacre was complete, Lapointe returned to the Arcahaie and had himself named its mayor; Jean-Baptiste Leroux was named captain-general. The freedmen gave liberty to the principal chiefs of the insurgents, who made their companions return to slavery. Lapointe formed of these chiefs a company of 40 gendarmes. To maintain order in his quarter he built two forts, one at Dégand in the Matheux, the other at Cabaret in the Boucassin.