Making an Opening to Liberty: 1791–93

After a series of mass meetings held at night in the northern mountain forests in early 1791, and inspired by Vodou priests such as the maroon ‘Zamba’ Boukman Dutty, the enslaved agreed to rise on Wednesday 24 August 1791 and take the great Northern port Cap Français (also known as Le Cap) at a time...

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Hauptverfasser:	Forsdick, Charles, Hogsbjerg, Christian
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	After a series of mass meetings held at night in the northern mountain forests in early 1791, and inspired by Vodou priests such as the maroon ‘Zamba’ Boukman Dutty, the enslaved agreed to rise on Wednesday 24 August 1791 and take the great Northern port Cap Français (also known as Le Cap) at a time when the Colonial Assembly of Saint-Domingue was due to meet – giving them the chance to take out the island’s political elite in one fell swoop.¹ Although there are divided opinions over its historical veracity, the Bois Caïman ceremony – presided over by Boukman Dutty and the