Black officers outside Le Cap mobilized to resist the colored coup and free Laveaux

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But some resisted the coup. One of Villatte’s officers, Pierre Léveillé, circulated throughout Le Cap speaking out against Laveaux’s arrest. The governor, he declared, was the “protector of the blacks,” and if he died the free coloreds would turn over the colony to the English, and slavery would be reestablished. Léveillé was stopped by Villatte’s followers, but not before he sent a message to the officer Pierre Michel, who commanded outside Le Cap, asking him to help. Michel rallied together his officers—including Pierrot, Sonthonax’s first recruit in 1793—and demanded that Laveaux and Perroud be released. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 693