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1796-03-30

The women of Le Cap who had gone to Villatte’s camp spread the rumor that Laveaux and Perroud had chains brought to enslave the blacks again…

Haitian

The women of Le Cap who had gone to Villatte’s camp spread the rumor that Laveaux and Perroud had chains brought to enslave the blacks again; the blacks ran to arms and Toussaint Louverture had the storehouses opened and the barrels emptied to show there were no chains.

Source  ·  p. 144 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. III) (1853), p. 144