Aux Cayes

Aux Cayes (also Les Cayes or Cayes; Kreyòl: Okay ) (8°12'N 73°45'W) is a southern port town in Haiti in the department Sud (South). It is the birthplace of André Rigaud (1761) and it was here in 1815, that the South American liberator Simón Bolivar first landed in Haiti.

In 1796 rioting against white colonial settlers erupted in Aux Cayes, killing many.

Toussaint Louverture wrote in his autobiographical notes: "...When I returned to Cayes, after the departure of Gen. Rigaud, the treasury was empty..." (Beard p. 323)

At a meeting in July of 1803 at Camp Gérard, near the town of Les Cayes, the Generals of the southern army under Geffrard, formed an alliance with Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

See also

• Toussaint dialogue with Léger Félicité Sonthonax (1797) - Toussaint Louverture mentions the Cayes Affair, the revolt against French settlers in 1796.
• Memoir of Toussaint Louverture, Written by Himself

References

• Les Cayes. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, edited by Saul B. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. www.bartleby.com. [Accessed on 1/30/2006].
• Extrait du rapport addressé au Directoire executif par le citoyen Toussaint Louverture, general en chef des Forces de la République française a Saint-Domingue. (1797) Chez P. Roux, imprimeur. Cap-français, n.d. [1797].

• Beard, J. R. (John Relly) (1863). Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography. Chapel Hill, NC: Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH. Online Publication