#bois caïman

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Frantz Zéphirin — Bois Caïman Ceremony (oil on canvas, 2022)

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Where it all began.

Bois Caïman

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Bois Caïman

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Bois Caïman (Bwa Kayiman)

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Bois Caïman : Pasteur Grégory Toussaint crache dans l'eau qu'il a bue

Pasteur Grégory Toussaint crache dans l’eau qu’il a bue en profanant la Cérémonie du Bois Caïman. Malgré tout, la Ministre de la Culture d’Haïti, Emmelie Prophète MILCE, n’a pas réagi contre cette profanation odieuse d’un patrimoine constituant le fondement de la liberté des esclaves haïtien et surtout de l’humanité. La plus grande révolution historique qui a changé le court de l’humanité est la…

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Haïti : entre profanation patrimoniale du Bois Caïman et religiosité

Il est scientifiquement et bibliquement admis que seule la religion comme facteur ne développe pas ni ne sauve non plus. De nos jours, des pays sont développés grâce à la justice, l’éducation, la science et aux technologies qu’ils mettent au premier degré et qu’ils en font des moyens de développement (Sodirjonov, 2020). Dans cette lignée, beaucoup de pays ont tiré leurs épingles du jeu et ont pu…

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The task of the spiritual warrior is to undo history by exorcizing it.

Elizabeth McAlister, “From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan.” McAlister is talking about Evangelical Christians rewriting Haitian history to cast the Vodoun ceremony at Bois Caïman at the beginning of the Haitian Revolution as “demonic,” but the process cuts both ways, and recalls Walter Benjamin:

The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. (Thesis 6)

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Today in Haitian History - August 14, 1791 - Bois Caïman Vodou Ceremony. 

While historians still debate how many slaves took part of the infamous Bois Caïman Vodou Ceremony (or if it even occurred), very few would deny the emblematic value of the event. Indeed, various accounts maintain that it was precisely during this service that slaves in Northern Saint-Domingue prepared and organized for a major uprising against slave-owners. This uprising soon transformed itself into a large-scale Revolution across the country where temporary associations were made and destroyed - a moment that we now refer to as the Haitian Revolution.

 * While the events that led to the formation of the Haitian state should not be reduced to a Vodou ceremony, Bois Caïman still, if only symbolically, marks the beginning of a new era and conscience amongst slaves in Saint-Domingue, whereby they agreed that death was better than servitude.

Painting of Bois Caïman Vodou ceremony with Boukman Dutty in its center: Courtesy of Michigan State University. (For reading suggestions on the Haitian Revolution, see here.)