1791-08-22
The insurrection begins with flames rising from the Acul
Haitian
On the night of 14 August 1791, two hundred Deputies of the work gangs of the parish of the North assembled on this habitation. There a man of color read to them a purported decree by which the King granted them three days of freedom each week. It was decided there that on the 22nd of the same month the insurrection would be general. On the appointed day, at 10 o’clock in the evening, whirlwinds of flame rising from the quartier of the Acul and leaping into space gave the signal of the insurrection. The enslaved placed at their head Jean François, who had Boukman and Flaville as his lieutenants.
Rouzier tells this under the entry LENORMAND.
Source · p. t. III, p. 145
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 145