Marigot (; ) is a
commune in the
Jacmel Arrondissement, in the
Sud-Est department of
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
. It has 50,739 inhabitants.
In early 1793, during the
Haitian Revolution
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, 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
Jacmel (; ) is a commune in southern Haiti founded by the Spanish in 1504 and repopulated by the French in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince across the Tiburon Peninsula, and ...
.
The Haitian writer was born in Marigot.
[Edith Wainwright, ''Culture haïtienne à travers des textes choisis'' (2001), page 72]
References
Populated places in Sud-Est (department)
Communes of Haiti
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