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Source: Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix, 3:48-49 The “Colas Cut Legs” moniker was probably due to his kidnappers cutting off his hamstrings to keep him from escaping, according to John Garrigus in A Secret among the Blacks. Planters in 1720s Saint-Domingue claimed to fear him as a maroon leader who led successive attacks on travelers and

Map of Bréda Plantations Haut-du-Cap Sugar Estate (1770s)

a craftman who worked on a Bréda plantation; became a battalion chief during the Haïtian Revolution