Tout Moun, 3/11: Poison, Flight and the Long Resistance

Episode 3/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. Resistance never waited for 1791. We follow it on the slave ships, through refusal and marronage, in the maroon communities of the mountains, in the Vodou gatherings, and in the conspiracy of François Makandal and the poison panic. At the center is a court record from 1757, the interrogation of an enslaved woman named Assam, which we read closely for what she said and what she kept to herself.

Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-05/transcript