At the beginning of the 19th century, the Republic of the Blacks was proclaimed in Haïti (1804) and, on the other hand, the slave-trade was abolished (1815). As a consequence, in the West Indies, the slaves considered how to gain freedom. In Martinique, during the night of the 12th to the 13th of October 1822, the slaves in the coffee plantations on Morne Vert (to-day the Petit Piton du Carbet) rebeled. First they searched for arms in their masters' houses, killing two and injuring seven of them. In this way they wasted several precious hours. Hence when they reached low-Carbet where fellow insurgents were waiting for them with a view to rallying the slaves of sugar plantations and march together towards Saint-Pierre, they found themselves ...