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Bois Caiman

Bwa Kayiman: The Ceremony that Sparked the Haitian Revolution

On the humid night of August 14, 1791, deep in the forests near what is now Morne Rouge , in northern Haiti, enslaved Africans and maroons gathered in defiance of the French colonial system. This historic meeting-known as Bwa Kayiman —was both spiritual and political, and it would spark the Haitian....

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