Dutty Boukman

Dutty Boukman (Boukman Dutty) (died ca. 1791) was an Haitian priest who conducted a religious ceremony in Haiti in which a freedom covenant was affirmed; this ceremony is considered a catalyst to the slave uprising that marked the beginning of the Haïtian Revolution.

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