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Bois Caïman

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English

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Etymology

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From French Bois Caïman (“Alligator Forest”); compare Haitian Creole Bwa Kayiman.

Proper noun

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Bois Caïman

  1. A place in northern Haiti near Le Cap, site of a vodou ceremony in which the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution was planned on August 14, 1791.
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