Bainet ( ht, Benè) is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

in the

Bainet Arrondissement Bainet ( ht, Benè) is an arrondissement in the Sud-Est department of Haiti. As of 2015, the population was 135,792 inhabitants. Postal codes in the Bainet Arrondissement start with the number 92. The arondissement consists of the following co ...

, in the Sud-Est department of

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

. It has 62,300 inhabitants. In late 1791 and early 1792, during the early

Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution (french: révolution haïtienne ; ht, revolisyon ayisyen) was a successful insurrection by slave revolt, self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt ...

, slaves in Bainet rebelled as part of the Trou Coffy uprising led by

Romaine-la-Prophétesse Romaine-la-Prophétesse (, Romaine the Prophetess), born Romaine Rivière around 1750 in Santo Domingo, was a free black coffee plantation owner and leader of an uprising early in the Haitian Revolution. In 1791, in response to rising racial ten ...

. The Haitian artist and photographer

Gérald Bloncourt Gérald Bloncourt (4 November 1926 – 29 October 2018), also known as Gérard Bloncourt, was a Haitian painter and photographer resident in the suburbs of Paris, France. Born in the small city of Bainet, in Haiti's Sud-Est department, Bloncour ...

was born in Bainet.Eleanor Ingalls Christensen, ''The Art of Haiti'' (1975), page 64

References

Populated places in Sud-Est (department) Communes of Haiti {{Haiti-geo-stub