Black Power in the Caribbean

Key figures in the Black Power movement include Makandal Daaga, Clive Nunez and Basdeo Panday.

Haitians developed a fierce vibrant and resistant culture in which they defended themselves from the British, Spanish, and French.

Bois Caïman is where a Vodou ceremony took place in which the first major slave revolt of the Haitian Revolution was planned.

On August 14, 1791, slaves from nearby plantations gathered to participate in a secret ceremony conducted in the woods in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.

A prominent slave leader and Vodou priest, Dutty Boukman, gave the signal to begin the revolt.