Come over anytime. I will happily let you hold my daughter for a while!

Or my hometown - Worcester, MA

Houston St in New York City!

I listened to the interview. Coates was spot on with his recommendations about what to do.

In 1818, Antoine Metral, a Haitian historian, wrote this account. He borrowed from Dalmas, but he also added the priestess who appears in most images of the ceremony

In 1793 or 1794, Antoine Dalmas, the surgeon at the nearby Gallifet plantation, wrote this account of the ceremony

The night before the enslaved Africans on Haiti launched their revolt, they held a ceremony at Bois-Caïman. There are lots of paintings of this ceremony that was central to the revolution. The ceremony was one more example of how the enslaved Africans weren't inspired by the Enlightenment

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Thanks 🙏

Thanks. I owe so much to scholars like you who have helped me better understand the Haitian Revolution. I always tell people my writing is about taking other people’s arguments and making it more accessible to students and teachers.

You can read a little more about my decision here
micro.liberatingnarratives.com/2025/09/05/m...