The first movement was described by Montague. In spring 1862, the federal authorities tasuniennes were confronted with the problem of many American Blacks whose fortunes of the war had given the fate between their hands. In September 1862, Bernard Kock had been carrying in Washington a contract of exploitation of the forests of the island with Vaches, including the exploitation of the garrigues. Labour was to be Noire and the granting of automatic nationality concerned 500 emigrants. At December 31, 1862, a contract of 250.000 dollars was signed between president Lincoln and Bernard Kock for the installation of a colony of 5.000 free Blacks in the island with Vaches. The number was later on reduced to 500 for a value symbolic system of a dollar signed with the New Yorkean firm Forbes and Tuckerman. Indeed the first contract with the federal authorities was never ratified because of the bad reputation of Kock.

The island with cows owes its name with the important herds of bovines that one meets there and who remained after the abandonment of the island by the Spaniards. It is located at broad of Cayes and occupies a surface of 4.800 ha.

To two or three miles at sea, opposite Cayes, this island with bovines is an old den of the flibustiers who awaited the passage of the Spanish galleons, coming from the Central America and on the way for Santo Domingo, their last wearing of fuelling before the great south through the Atlantic. At the XVII century, the English flibustier Henry Morgan made his base of it before his expdittion against Panam. Only remains the memory of its boat, which exploded some share in close water. Today, the island, all soft inclined, lakes and villages, lives at the rate/rhythm of the lake, soft inclined markets and village, lives at the rate/rhythm of the markets of MADAME-BERNARD (Monday and Thursday), the