The white man gives the Afrikan one choice: serve Euro interests or die! Desalin Haiti responded, "we shall not integrate with injustice. Our rallying cry, in contrast to the white man's 'assimilate or die,' is: Libète ou lanmò--Liberty or death!"
Haiti Resistance Celebrates Bwa Kayiman 2014
On August 14, 1791, after 300-years of European slavery, terror and colonialism, the Haitians gathered at a clearing at Bwa Kayiman to strategize battle plans for war against their terrorist enslavers. They finalized plans for the war to began one week later on August 22, 1791.
Cecile Fatiman was the woman who presided at the war council as priestess, mounted by the irreducible essence of the feminine principle and warrior mother, Ezili Dantò. Manbo Fatiman chose Boukman amongst all the fierce warriors present to lead the war.
After 13 years of war, the Africans beat the French armies, the English armies, the Spanish armies and a US embargo and all their mercenaries to create Haiti.
Haiti/Ayiti is the first nation of the modern world to outlaw slavery. The first nation in world history where the enslaved had the courage and iron will to overthrow their masters...223 years later, on this August 14, 2014, Haiti still fights off the return of the enslavers. The epic struggle for Haitian liberty... (Read the complete essay here.)
An artist rendering of Manbo Cecile Fatima, the priestess that orchestrated Bwa Kayiman