Black Caesar was allegedly a 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate. Efforts to find historical evidence of his existence have been unsuccessful. According to works of fiction, he was a participant in the Haitian Revolution under Dutty Boukman and Toussaint Louverture as well as active in piracy for nearly a 30-year period during the early 19th century. Henri Caesar was allegedly born to a slave family kept by a French plantation owner known as Arnaut. He worked as a houseboy on the estate and, as a young man, worked in the lumberyard. He was apparently mistreated by the supervisor and later killed the man during the slave insurrection , torturing him with a saw . Joining the rebel forces led by Dutty Boukman and Toussaint Louverture , he remained with the revolution until its independence from France in 1804, when he left to try his luck at sea. Based in Port-de-Paix , he captured ...