Boukman Dutty

Dutty Boukman (Boukman Dutty) (died November 1791) was a slave in Haiti who was one of the most visible early leaders of the Haitian Revolution. According to some contemporary accounts, Boukman may have conducted a religious ceremony in which a freedom covenant was affirmed;this ceremony would have been a catalyst to the slave uprising that marked the beginning of the Haitian Revolution.