Old Ignace is a named enslaved elder who appears in dalmas-bois-caiman-extraction as part of the conspiracy trail surrounding the bois-caïman-ceremony and the august-1791-uprising.
His presence in the earliest published account of the Bois Caïman gathering — written by colonial physician Antoine Dalmas in 1793–94 and published in 1814 — offers one of the few glimpses of elder authority in the revolutionary organizing network of 1791.
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 1791-08-14
Bois Caïman Ceremony
caïman-ceremony — source cluster where Ignace appears
- 1791-08-22
August 1791 Uprising
1791-uprising — uprising context