Plaine du Nord. Moyse rides through it organizing the insurrection.

In the course of Vendémiaire, Year 10 (October 1801), a conspiracy was hatched at the Cap whose ramifications reached to Port-Margot, to La Marmelade, to Le Dondon, and in short throughout the province of the North. On the morning of 25 Vendémiaire (17 October) General Moyse left the Cap, gathered several hundred horsemen and rode through the Plaine du Nord, organizing the insurrection that was to break out on 29 Vendémiaire. And indeed in the night of the 29th to the 30th of that month (21 to 22 October) insurrectionary movements showed themselves in almost the whole department of the North. Two hundred and fifty whites were massacred, in the plains as in the mornes. The signal of revolt was given at a moment when a tranquillity restored by terror reigned on every side. Moyse was undertaking a war whose aim was the extermination of the whites, the union of the Black and the mixed-race people, and the independence of his country. It was said in the countryside of the North that Dessalines and Christophe had consented to the governor’s plan for the restoration of slavery.