The Night They Said We Sold Our Souls
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
It was the summer of 1791, and hundreds of enslaved Africans gathered to pray, plan, and take back their power. The white world would remember this night and call it horror, but here’s the truth behind the lie.
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| 0:00.0 | Sean has had some good ideas over the years. |
| 0:05.0 | But using Canva was a really good one. |
| 0:08.0 | Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale. |
| 0:13.0 | They looked good. |
| 0:15.0 | Really, really good. |
| 0:17.0 | Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car. |
| 0:23.6 | Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home. |
| 0:27.6 | Thanks, Canva. |
| 0:29.6 | It was the summer of 1791 and hundreds of enslaved Africans gathered to pray, plan, and take back their power. |
| 0:43.3 | The white world would remember this night and call it horror, but here's the truth behind the lie. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Sydney and this is Two-Minute black history, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:57.0 | In the thick woods of Bois came in, hundreds of enslaved leaders from nearby plantations |
| 1:07.0 | gathered in secret for a special ceremony that would forever go down in history. |
| 1:13.6 | Invocations poured through the night denouncing the white man of God. |
| 1:19.6 | Vodou Mambo Cecile offered a black pig to Haitian spirits, |
| 1:24.6 | spilling its blood as a sworn oath, to fight, to burn, to be free. |
| 1:33.3 | Within days, plantations across the north were in flames. |
| 1:39.3 | The uprising spread through the colony, and that night became the spark that lit the Haitian |
| 1:46.2 | revolution, the first rebellion of enslaved people to win independence and create a free |
| 1:52.6 | black republic. |
| 1:55.7 | But whose version of this story survived, and whose was silenced? In colonial records, the night was described as |
| 2:04.0 | superstitious rights and bloodthirsty religion. And still, centuries later, Christian missionaries |
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