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Dutty Boukman, The Fearless Leader Who Helped Spark the Haitian Revolution

Dutty Boukman ( ??? – November 7, 1791)

Dutty Boukman was born in Jamaica but was sold to a plantation in Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) after he was caught teaching enslaved Africans to read.

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