Caroline Acau sung by Felina Backer at Voices of Women, Dwa Fanm, (Tequila Minsky)

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The song traces back to the piquet revolts in the south during the 1840s. Jean-Jacques Aca'au was the piquet leader, and reputedly a oungan. No one knows for sure if Caroline was his wife, his sister, his daughter. But a playwright named Alphonse Piard wrote a play where she was his daughter, and his inspiration to revolt. The song's a classic.