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The 1791 Haitian Revolution Outbreak: Bois Caïman Ceremony
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the opening chapter of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt that created an independent Black republic. They focus on the Bois Caïman ceremony of August 1791, where the enslaved leader Boukman Dutty and priestess Cécile Fatiman invoked Vodou spirits to ignite the uprising. The conversation covers the social hierarchy of Saint-Domingue—grand blancs, petits blancs, and gens de couleur libres—and how the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man created contradictions in a slave colony. Lucas explains the role of Vodou…
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