Dutty Boukman was the catalyst that began the African enslaved revolt and literally lit the fire that struck terror...
Grann Guitonn was the spiritual advisor/mother warrior upon whose lap Janjak Desalin found his strength. Grann Guitonn advise him...
Adbaraya Toya aka Victoria Montou is originally from the Kingdom of Dahomey currently Benin. She was a midwife, a...
Not much is known about Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, not even when she was born or died. The formerly enslaved mulatto...
Dédée Bazile was born near Cap-Français to enslaved parents and serve the army of Dessalines. There are varying accounts...
Cécile Fatiman was the daughter of an enslaved African woman and a white Frenchman from Corsica. She and her...
Suzanne “Sanité” Bélair was born in Verrettes on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue in 1781, ten years before the...
Francois Mackandal was a charismatic and skilled leader of a slave revolt in Haiti in the 18th century. Mackandal...
Romaine-la-Prophétesse (Romaine Rivière), was a late eighteenth-century warrior of the early stages of the Haitian Revolution. He was born...
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