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Enslaved communities of the northern plain

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Enslaved communities of the northern plain

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Bwa Kayiman is remembered as a gathering of spiritual and political resistance

📅 14 August 1791

Haitian historical tradition dates a Vodou gathering at Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caïman) to the night of 14 August 1791, shortly before the northern uprising. Memory associates the gathering with enslaved...