Also known as: Fanm Rebel, Fanm Rebèl, Fanm Rebèl Project, Rendering Revolution
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Fanm Rebèl (Rebel Women) is a digital research project created by Dr. Nicole Willson at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. The project documents and recovers the lives of women in the Haitian Revolution and the broader revolutionary period (1750--1850), with a particular focus on Marie Louise Coidavid (Queen Marie-Louise Christophe) and the forms of female resistance that operated through culture, dress, and domestic labor rather than armed combat alone.
rebel-resources — Digital research project that foregrounds women, material culture, and revolutionary memory.
christophe --- Marie-Louise's husband, King Henri I
heureuse --- Wife of Dessalines, known for mercy during war
jeanne-lamartinière --- Fought at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot
louise-coidavid --- Central subject of the project
amethyste --- Daughter of Henri Christophe and Marie-Louise
belair --- Revolutionary woman warrior, executed 1802
louverture --- Wife of Toussaint Louverture
Français --- Birthplace of Marie-Louise, center of the revolution
domingue --- The colony
noir --- Legal framework that regulated enslaved people's dress and behavior
The broader framework of resistance
under-slavery --- Women's experience under the slave system
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