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Black August 2016 Film Night #3: Egalite for All: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution

  • Lumumba Center 939 West Capitol Street Jackson, MS, 39203 United States (map)

The third film in our series documents the struggle to create the first full free and independent republic in the Western Hemisphere. The Haitian Revolution started in August 1791 at a ceremony at Bois Caiman lead by Cecile Fatiman and Dutty Boukman.