In August of 1791, in the thick woods of St. Domingue (pre-revolutionary Haiti), enslaved persons gathered at Morne Rouge, at a specific place which will now become known as Bois Caïman. The meeting consists of about two hundred enslaves, sent from various plantations in the region. Presiding over the meeting was the Jamaican enslaved, Dutty Boukman. As Boukman, presided over the meeting and call upon the enslaved to take their freedom from the French oppressors, a woman would appeared suddenly in the meeting: Cecile Fatiman. Cecile would go on to perform what is now widely consider to be a voodoo ritual and prophesied the fall of the French colonisers in Haiti. As such, Bois Caïman, would go down in history as the event that kicked off the Haitian Revolution; the only successful black slave revolt in history. 

Song: Bois Caïman - King Kessy 

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