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Cécile Fatiman
Cécile Fatiman was a Haitian Vodou priestess (manbo) and revolutionary who, with Dutty Boukman, led the ceremony at Bois Caïman that marked the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. The daughter of an enslaved African woman and a Corsican prince, she and her mother were bought and sold as slaves, and she gained her freedom before or during the rising of 1791. On the night of 21–22 August 1791 she presided over the ceremony, which gathered 200 enslaved people: a black pig was sacrificed, and those present swore to kill the white slavers and to obey Boukman as their commander. She later married the general Jean-Louis Pierrot and reportedly died at the age of 112.
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