Early republic

Saint-Domingue / Haiti

Cécile Fatiman

Life

?1883

Historical era

Early republic

Role

Priestess at Bois Caïman; voice of Vodou insurgency in planter memory.

Oral histories credit her with opening the famous 1791 ceremony; treat chronology as partly folk-historical.

This is an educational simulation. It can err; always consult primary sources and historians for research.