The freedmen of the South gathered at the camp-Prou under André Rigaud, ten leagues from Les Cayes.

The movement in the South was better planned; the men of color had gathered on 7 November 1790, on the plantation of one of their own, the young Léon Prou, in the quarter of the Ravine-Sèche, some ten leagues from the town of Les Cayes, under the leadership of André Rigaud, the brothers Bleck, Boury, Rémarais, Braquehais and Faubert. André Rigaud, more ardent than the others, was the soul of this taking up of arms; young, brought up in France, where he had learned the trade of goldsmith; having served under the comte d’Estaing, he knew the art of war; two wounds received at the siege of Savannah added to his legitimate importance (1).