The Artibonite. Dumontellier and Borel arm Africans against the mulattoes; concordat with the whites.

One Dumontellier, a self-styled patriot who lived on nothing but devastation and plunder, armed against the mulattoes of the Artibonite a band of Africans who took the name of Saliniers, from their headquarters set up near vast salt pans. Dumontellier made an alliance with another brigand chief, Borel, a member of the Colonial Assembly. Borel set up two camps: one on a plantation he owned in the plain of the Artibonite, the other on the Comon plantation. Port-au-Prince sent him 300 men of the Artois regiment as reinforcements. He raised several plantation work gangs against the men of color and came to attack them. They beat him at the Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite, fortified the position called the Crête-à-Pierrot, and made a concordat with the whites, who were represented by Fontanges and Cambis (14 April). This concordat saved the colonists of the Artibonite from the fury of the mulattoes.