Larchevesque-Thibaud was a white colonist political agitator in Cap-Français who appears among the founding members of the former Leopardins' theater club in October 1792 and was subsequently arrested and deported to France after the December 2 fighting.
He likely appears also in the Garran de Coulon report as the colonist who mutilated a wet nurse named Sophie — an atrocity case that Vastey later used to indict colonial civilization as a whole. He matters less as a major figure than as a type: local club agitator, participant in the anti-free-colored reaction, and representative of the intimate violence Haitian writers drew on to prosecute their moral case against colonial rule.
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- 1792-12-02
Combat of 2 December 1792 at Le Cap
Was among the leading club agitators arrested and deported to France in the aftermath of the December 2, 1792 fighting in Cap-Français.