Dutty Boukman

LESSON
Known as the ‘bookman’ because he could read, he was an inspiring and popular Vodou leader.

— Dutty Boukman




Lesson Objective

What did it take for enslaved Africans to resist and rise-up in Haïti?

Dutty helped rouse a huge revolutionary uprising on Saint Domingue



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