Marigot,_Sud-Est

Marigot, Haiti

Marigot, Haiti

Commune in Sud-Est, Haiti

Marigot (Haitian Creole: Marigo) is a commune in the Jacmel Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est department of Haiti. It has 50,739 inhabitants.

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In early 1793, during the Haitian Revolution, Marigot's black inhabitants rebelled and built a fort in the city.[2] Abbé Aubert, a white priest and leader of the rebellion in the area, also commandeered Marigot's cannons and contributed them to Romaine-la-Prophétesse's slave uprising around and siege of Jacmel.[3]

The Haitian writer Emile Célestin-Mégie [fr] was born in Marigot.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI)
  2. [2]
    Rey, Terry (2017). The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Oxford University Press. pp. 44, 235. ISBN 978-0190625849.
  3. [3]
    Rey 2017, pp. 129–130.
  4. [4]
    Edith Wainwright, Culture haïtienne à travers des textes choisis (2001), page 72


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