Also known as: Les Cayes, Cayes
Last updated: April 26, 2026
Les Cayes was the main port and administrative center of the South Province, a city where free-colored wealth, public humiliation, militia politics, and later southern revolutionary leadership all became visible.
André Rigaud
Les Cayes was the key South Province base from which the republican expedition against Platons was organized.
Operated in the South Province theater centered on Les Cayes.
Les Cayes was the southern urban center tied to the wider free-colored political world in which the Raimond family moved.
The massacre took place in Aux Cayes on the southern coast
The rebellion centered around Aux Cayes in the South Province
The Platons was the mountainous terrain above Les Cayes from which insurgent raids extended across the South Province
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Southern stronghold of gens de couleur
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