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