Thomas Craemer

On a motorcycle with four occupants – Wilcy, Smith, me, Thomas, and Michelet (picture 1) – I was on an adventurous sort of pilgrimage to the sites of the Haitian Revolution near Cap-Haitien from March 11-21, 2016. We visited Bois Caiman (picture 2), where everything began with a big Voodoo-ceremony on August 14, 1791; Bréda (picture 3) where revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture grew up, and the battlefield of Vertières (picture 4) where the revolution was ultimately victorious when Dessalines’ army of ex-slaves defeated Napoleon’s troops on November 18, 1803. Also, King Henry-Christophe’s palace ruins of Sans Souci in Milot (picture 5), and the nearby massive Citadelle La Ferriere (pict