http://www.bondye.com/top-10-vodou-priests/
http://www.jesterbear.com/Aradia/HaitianImages.html
Although this picture has been described
as an image of Boukman Dutty, it was actually
the rebel general Biassou (J.-C. Dorsainvil,
Histoire d'Haiti, Henri Deschamps,
Port-au-Prince, 1934 ff, p. 78). Boukman
was beheaded fairly early in the revolution
and no portraits of him survived.
Bois
Caïman is the site of the Vodou ceremony during which the first major
slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned.
Wikipedia
There may be no man more important in the Haitian Revolution than Dutty
Boukman. A native Jamaican, his name literally meant “Dirty Bookman,” a
likely reference to a secret book of occult lore he always kept close.
He was an educated man, although a slave, who was sold by his British
master to a French plantation in Haiti. Dutty Boukman would teach other
slaves to read as well as instruct in closely guarded Vodou lore. But
his fame would come in August 14, 1791 at the Bwa Kayman ceremony.
Boukman was the leading Vodou Priest and called for sacrifice and slave
rebellion. It is said that the Petro Lwa family was born from these
rituals and from the Haitian Revolution itself. Only eight days later,
on August 22, the rebellion began in the Haitian mountains in the north.
Boukman was quickly captured and beheaded, but the Revolution had
started and would lead to Haiti becoming the first independent Republic
of Haiti. Boukman lives on today, immortalized as a Lwa in his own
http://waronthehorizon.com/site/?m=201002&cat=1
Boukman Dutty began the rebellion with a prayer to the people:
Boukman’s Prayer
Good God who created the Sun which shines on us from above, who rouses the sea and makes the thunder rumble; Listen!
God though hidden in a cloud watches over us.
The god of the white man calls forth crime but our God wills good works.
Our God who is good commands us to vengeance. He will direct our arms and help us.
Throw away the likeness of the white man’s god who has so
often brought us to tears and listen to liberty which speaks in all our
hearts.
Boukman’s philosophy was “Conquer or Die.” He was eventually killed
and replaced by less effective, Negro, accommodationist leadership. As a
result, Haitian independence took much longer than it should have.
By 1802, the revolution had fallen into the hands of a man of the
same ilk as Boukman Dutty. He was an Afrikan War General named
Jean-Jaques Dessalines. He became the liberator of Haiti.
Comparing the Legends of Bois Caiman
Comparing the Legends of Bois Caiman
WHO SAYS WE DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, PAT ROBERTSON
OK, so what “probably” happened at Bois Caiman in August 1791?
Boukman probably set up the meeting at Bois Caiman to jump-start the uprising.
There probably was a religious ceremony. It probably was a Vodou
ritual, which Boukman and Mambo Cécile Fatiman presided over. It
probably involved the slaughter of a domestic black pig. The ritual
probably also involved drumming and spirit dancing.
The meeting is reported to have included about 300 slaves. Many spoke
in turn about their grievances with their French masters and the
oppression they were under.
Boukman is believed to have been of Dahomey extract, although his
followers were known to have called him “Zamba” Boukman. (A curious
name, because Zamba was also the name that the Yaounde people of the
Cameroons called their High God.)
Boukman was also known as a powerful Houngan or priest of Vodou. He may have been
familiar with the Jamaican practice of Cumina, but was certainly familiar with some of
the religious practices of the Dahomey people and others from around the Gold Coast.
Boukman, probably acting as a Houngan, offered an invocation to the Good God.
