Dalmas: the black pig in the woods (near Le Cap, August 1791; written 1793–94, printed 1814)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1791 · Places: Florida, Ayiti
SUMMARYDalmas: the black pig in the woods (near Le Cap, August 1791; written 1793–94, printed 1814) [Connections: Ayiti spirit, first-person, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDAntoine Dalmas, surgeon on the Gallifet plantation, Histoire de la révolution de Saint-Domingue (Paris, 1814), vol. 1, pp. 116–118 (translation on the page): "they celebrated a kind of festival or sacrifice in the middle of an uncultivated woodland"; "A pig, entirely black, surrounded by fetishes and loaded down with offerings." Participants wanted to drink its blood and keep its hairs as a talisman. HOSTILE witness: a white colonist who survived the uprising, reporting what captives said
PATTERNThe founding ceremony enters the written record through an enemy
LENS (WW9)The first story of Bois Caïman was told by the other side
OPENDalmas names no Boukman and no priestess
SOURCEMiami Univ. "Early accounts" PDF; Duke: Early Accounts.