The stormy-night detail of Bois-Caïman was a later literary addition

Evidence

Dalmas’s account was taken up by another writer, the French abolitionist Civique de Gastine, who added the (now canonical) detail that it was a dark and stormy night. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 345

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• SEED: Essay angle: how a dramatic detail entered the historical record through literary embellishment and hardened into canonical fact.