a1032: Re: a878: Toussaint "Ginou" Louverture ? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: madison bell <mbell@goucher.edu>

Toussaint's son Isaac wrote an incomplete biographical memoir of his
father, which appears as an appendix to Historire de l'expedition des
Francais a Saint Domingue.  Isaac reports that Toussaint was son of Gaou
Ginou, king among the Aradas, who was taken prisoner in an African war and
sold in slavery to Saint Domingue.  So far as I know, though, Toussaint
never incorporated Ginou into his own name, nor does Isaac report that he
did so.

msb






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