Timeline Tuesday 23 August 1791

Events on Tuesday 23 August 1791 1

• 1791 Haitian Revolution begins Enslaved people rise up across Saint-Domingue On the night of 22-23 August 1791, enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint-Domingue launched a mass uprising, burning plantations and killing planters across the Northern Province. The revolt, preceded by the Bois Caiman ceremony, grew into the Haitian Revolution. It would eventually produce the first successful slave-led republic in the Americas.