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Tupac, Parrish from EPMD and Khalil Kain at Ed Lover’s birthday party in Miami, 1992✨

“I swear to maintain the integrity of our land and the independence of the Kingdom; to never allow, under any pretext, the return of Slavery nor of any feudal system contrary to liberty and the exercise of the civil and political rights of the people of Haiti.”

-King Henry Christophe

Bòn Fèt Papa Dessalines! | September 20, 1758 #Dessalines #Haiti #HaitianHistory

‪Bwa Kayiman | 14.08.1791 ‬

Bois Caïman (Haitian Creole: Bwa Kayiman) was the site of the Vodou ceremony during which the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned.

On the night of August 14, 1791, representative slaves from nearby plantations gathered to participate in a secret ceremony conducted in the woods by nearby Le Cap in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Presided over by Dutty Boukman, a prominent slave leader and Vodou priest, the ceremony served as both a religious ritual and strategic meeting as conspirators met and planned a revolt against the ruling white planters of the colony’s wealthy Northern Plain. The ceremony is considered the official beginning of the Haitian Revolution.

In the following days, the whole Northern Plain was in flames, as the revolutionaries conducted acts of violence towards those who had formerly enslaved them. Clouded in mystery, many accounts of the catalytic ceremony and its particular details have varied. There are no known first-hand written accounts about what took place that night. It was first documented in the colonist Antoine Dalmas’s “History of the Saint-Domingue Revolution”, published in 1814.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti c.1950

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