14731: Reid: Joseph Bunel (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Ralph Reid <rafreid@yahoo.com>

I am just finishing the very fascinating 2002 Pulitzer
Prize Winner biography of John Adams, 2nd President of
the United States.

The author David McCullough talks about one Joseph Bunel
who was sent by Toussaint Louverture in 1798 as a
representative to lobby for recognition of the black
republic and a possible lift of the current embargo on
San Domingo (term the author uses instead of Santo Domingo)

Anybody has more info on Joseph Bunel? Who was he and
what were the results of his mission? McCullough does not
say much about Bunel. He only says on p. 519 :

   "in December, a representative from Toussaint,
    Joseph Bunel, dined with Adams, marking the
    first time a man of African descent was the
    dinner guest of an American President."


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