Marigot, Sud-Est
Marigot (French pronunciation: [maʁiɡo]; Haitian Creole: Marigo) is a commune in the Jacmel Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est department of Haiti. It has 50,739 inhabitants.
In early 1793, during the Haitian Revolution, Marigot's black inhabitants rebelled and built a fort in the city. 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.
The Haitian writer Emile Célestin-Mégie was born in Marigot.
References
- ^ Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rey 2017, pp. 129–130.
- ^ Edith Wainwright, Culture haïtienne à travers des textes choisis (2001), page 72
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