Dutty Boukman and Cécile Fatiman in later accounts

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

📅 14 Augustus 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...