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'''Colonel Pierre Michel''' was the Negro subordinate of [[Jean Baptiste Villatte]].  When Villatte rose up against [[Comte de Laveaux|General Laveaux]] in [[Le Cap]] in [[1796]]. Pierre Michel kept [[Toussaint Louverture]] informed.  When Laveaux was captured, Pierre Michel "assembled all the men he knew to be loyal and called the cultivators to 'defend their friend Laveaux'." ([[This Gilded African|Parkinson]], p. 101)

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