Start of the Slave Uprising (1791)

The mass uprising of enslaved people in the northern province of Saint-Domingue beginning on the night of August 22, 1791 — eight days after the Bois Caïman ceremony. Within days, over 100,000 enslaved people had joined the revolt and hundreds of plantations were burning. The uprising, initially led by Boukman Dutty and other enslaved leaders, became the catalyst for the Haitian Revolution and ultimately Haitian independence in 1804.