Trou-Coffy
- Title of the Document
- Trou-Coffy
- One Line Summary
- Trou-Coffy was Romaine Rivière’s coffee plantation, where he led his insurgency and raids against Jacmel and Léogâne.
- Author
- N/A
- Date Created
- 1784
- Location
- Western Region, Haiti; in the hills; presently in the Fondwa Commune in Léogâne, West Province, Haiti.
- Publisher
- N/A
- Transcription
- Trou-Coffy was nestled in the hills of the Western Region of Haiti, in a valley eight leagues away from Léogâne. It was formerly a coffee plantation before it operated as a military base, and it was covered with “beautiful orchids of coffee”4. It was 32 acres and sparsely populated and said to resemble “the ancient crater of a volcano.”4 It also was very hard to get to due to its“notoriously inaccessible mountaintop”4. It is noted that its location is now part of the “Communal Section of Fondwa, in the Commune of Léogâne in Haiti’s West Province”5.
- Related
- Romaine-la-Prophétesse, Abbé Ouvière, Father J. P. M. Blouët, Maurice Cavalier
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Romaine Rivière (1750-1792)
- Provenance
- Romaine Rivière purchased Trou-Coffy in 1784 from a free mixed race person named Maurice Cavalier. After it was raided in 1792, there is no historical record of what happened to it. But now there is a commune where it used to be.