Carondelet ordered Castanedo to pay Antonio Sousa, the city hangman, 430 pesos for executing the slaves from Pointe Coupée who had plotted to overthrow their owners. [Regarding the slave conspiracy of 1795 April see: Gayarré, III, 354-355; Liljegren, "Jacobinism in Spanish Louisiana," LHQ, XXII, 63; McConnell, Negro troops of Antebellum Louisiana, 26-28.]