Le Cap. Toussaint assembles the population on the parade ground and has prisoners, among them Joseph Flaville, shot with grapeshot.

The governor left Héricourt for Le Cap. When he reached the heights above that town, he had about a hundred cultivators who had taken part in the revolt exterminated. On 13 Brumaire (4 November 1801) he entered Le Cap with forty prisoners of rank, and assembled the entire population on the parade ground. The 1st and 2nd demi-brigades formed a hollow square, behind which a squadron of his guard of honor was drawn up. Suddenly three pieces of cannon, matches lit, came out onto the square and entered the hollow square; the multitude and the troops themselves were seized with terror; the bayonets of the trembling soldiers were seen to waver. Toussaint, leaving his staff far behind him, appeared alone in the midst of the crowd. A deep silence fell. Here, he said, is the man whom General Moyse has represented as a traitor to the fatherland! Here is the man who murders his brothers! Here is the man who has attempted the restoration of slavery, who has betrayed the Republic, and who has sought to have himself proclaimed king upon thousands of corpses! He rode around the square, still alone, full of fury, casting menacing looks upon the crowd. Today, he went on, the guilty will receive their punishment; they have disturbed public order. As for General Moyse, my nephew, within a few days he will suffer the penalty that his taking up of arms deserves; he has conspired against France, his fatherland, and whoever arms himself against her, were it my own son, will perish by the death of traitors. He ordered several suspected officers to step out of the ranks and blow out their own brains, which they did without a murmur. Then a crowd of men bound one to another appeared on the square. Among them could be seen the colonel of the 5th demi-brigade, Joseph Flaville, and the citizens Troisballes, Bonhomme and Jean-Baptiste Lebon. The square opened, the three pieces of cannon were trained on them; a moment later they had vanished, cut to pieces by the grapeshot. The crowd, seized with horror, fled and scattered in every direction. Toussaint went to the national palace, which even the highest civil and military authorities were forbidden to enter; only the officers of his guard surrounded him. The next day he set out for Fort-Liberté, where the same scene was repeated. There Captain Hillarion was bayoneted, the brother of the man who had been shot at Port-Républicain for domestic theft. From Fort-Liberté he went to Le Trou, where he had about a thousand cultivators of the Plaine du Nord, who had been brought there, put to death. In that town the massacre was more frightful than anywhere else. It took place around a cayemite which the inhabitants of that district long pointed out to travelers with dread. The governor returned to Le Cap to see to the condemnation of General Moyse. After appointing Christophe brigadier general, he ordered Dessalines to go through the whole province so that tranquillity might be restored there for good. Dessalines drove back to their respective plantations, with musket fire, all the cultivators he met. When he reached Le Limbé, a man of color was brought before him. At the sight of the mulatto he cried out: I will no longer put those of this color to death; I have sworn it; enough of it! Too long have we been led astray! Give this brother his liberty.