• 19.723°N 72.273°W / 19.723; -72.273 Bois Caïman (French: Bois Caïman, lit. 'Gator Wood ; Bois = Wood ; Caïman = Gator') was the site of the first major...
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  • Cécile Fatiman, a Vodou mambo, presided over the religious ceremony at Bois Caïman, in August 1791, that served as the catalyst to the 1791 slave revolt...
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    Citadelle Henry has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Bois Caïman (Haitian Creole: Bwa Kayiman), three kilometres (2 mi) south of road...
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  • existence of the Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman. But historian Carolyn Fick was able to say with certainty that the Bois Caïman meeting was historically factual...
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  • The French revolutionary government granted citizenship and freedom to free people of color in May 1791, but white planters in Saint-Domingue refused to...
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    known for sacrificing a black pig in the August 1791 Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman—an act that is said to have ignited the Haitian Revolution. There are...
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    the Maroon slaves, and Cecile Fatiman during a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman on the night of 14 August. Within the next ten days, slaves had taken...
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    Hispaniola. In 1791, slaves and some Creoles took part in a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman and planned the Haitian Revolution. The slave rebellion later allied...
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    Boukman alongside Cécile Fatiman (a manbo), went to the woodland of Bois-Caïman in the Northern part of Haiti. Here, a Vodou ceremony took place. Legend...
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    Le bois d'ébène (1984, ISBN 2-7234-0440-4) 6. La petite fille Bois-Caïman - Livre 1 (2009, ISBN 978-2-35648-066-8) 7. La petite fille Bois-Caïman - Livre...
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