Dutty Boukman

Dutty Boukman
Dutty Boukman
Born	c. 1767; Senegambia
Died	7 November 1791
Other names	Boukman Dutty
Known for	Catalyst to the Haitian Revolution

Dutty Boukman (or Boukman Dutty; died 7 November 1791) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born to a Muslim family in Senegambia (present-day Senegal and Gambia), he was initially enslaved in Jamaica.^[1] He eventually ended up in Haiti, where he may have become a leader of the maroons and a vodou houngan (priest),^[2] however this claim only originated in modern sources.^[3]

According to some contemporary accounts, Boukman, alongside Cécile Fatiman, a Vodou mambo, presided over the religious ceremony at Bois Caïman, in August 1791, that served as the catalyst to the 1791 slave revolt which is usually considered the beginning of the Haitian Revolution.

Boukman was a key leader of the slave revolt in the Le Cap‑Français region in the north of the colony. He was killed by the French planters and colonial troops on 7 November 1791,^[4]^[5] just a few months after the beginning of the uprising.

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Tickner was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Edmonds, Ennis B.; Gonzalez, Michelle A. (2010). Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814722503.
^ Geggus, David (1992). "Marronage, voodoo, and the Saint Domingue slave revolt of 1791". Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. 15: 22–35. ISSN 0362-7055.
^ Girard, Philippe R. (2010). "Haitian Revolution". In Leslie, Alexander (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1851097692.
^ Poujol-Oriol, Paulette (2005). "Boukman". In Appiah, Kwame Antony; Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195170559.

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[2] Edmonds, Ennis B.; Gonzalez, Michelle A. (2010). Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814722503.

[:2-3] Geggus, David (1992). "Marronage, voodoo, and the Saint Domingue slave revolt of 1791". Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society. 15: 22–35. ISSN 0362-7055.

[4] Girard, Philippe R. (2010). "Haitian Revolution". In Leslie, Alexander (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1851097692.

[5] Poujol-Oriol, Paulette (2005). "Boukman". In Appiah, Kwame Antony; Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195170559.

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Dutty Boukman
Born	c. 1767 Senegambia^[1]
Died	7 November 1791
Other names	Boukman Dutty
Known for	Catalyst to the Haitian Revolution