Bois Caïman

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Bois Caïman was the site of the first major meeting of enslaved Africans during which the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned.

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Boukman is associated with the Bois Caïman ceremony; its precise details are…
Boukman is associated with the Bois Caïman ceremony; its precise details are debated because surviving accounts are retrospective.
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Bois Caïman: people, places, and context for the episode.
Bois Caïman was the site of the first major meeting of enslaved Africans during which the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned.
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