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a873: Re: a861: Toussaint GUINOU (Saint-Vil indicates source) (fwd)
From: Jean Saint-Vil <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>
From: Adrien Bance <abance@sympatico.ca>
«What are the historical evidences of this ancestry? Did any scholar find in
Dahomey (Benin) traces of this Gaou Guinou as a king(chief?) in the Arada's
history. Thanks for your informations.»
I defer to the scholars to provide further details on this fact. However,
from the material available to me, it seems that an Isaac Louverture
(Toussain's son) 1818 memoire is one of the earliest written references to
this royal ancestry. Below are some links about the ancestry of Toussaint
Louverture and his surviving royal lineage in modern-day Dahomey (Bénin).
Gradfather: Gaou-Guinou
Father : Hyppolite born Gaou
http://www.rootsweb.com/~htiwgw/00003.htm
http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/Haiti/Toussaint.htm
«(1) Son père Hippolyte Gaou se déclarait fils d'un roi africain, nommé
Gaou-Guinou, et disait avoir été enlevé par une tribu ennemie, puis vendu à
des Arabes, qui l'auraient ensuite revendu à des blancs (Cf. Alfred de
LACAZE, in Nouvelle biographie générale.., op. cit.,p. 38).»
http://members.aol.com/GHCaraibe/bul/ghc92/p1947.html
«Sur quels documents se base-t-on pour écrire que Toussaint était le
fils de Gaou Guinou, lui-même second fils du Roi des Aradas, pris dans
une guerre tribale, vendu à un négrier qui l'emmena à St-Domingue ? Ce
sont, "les mémoires" d'Isaac Louverture, fils légitime de Toussaint,
mémoires qui furent publiées en 1818.»
http://www.heritageaccess.com/benin_culture.html
«The King of Allada, King Kpodegbe is a direct descendant of Toussaint
Louverture, the founding hero of the nation of Haiti.»
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N.B.: Whether King Gaou Guinou is referred to as King, Chief, chieftain or
warlord depends on the paradigm being used. Likewise, within a certain
mindset, the People of Aradas are sometimes considered «tribesmen», the
language they speak a «dialect». So, I rather leave this one alone since I
am no expert in Chieftain' Elizabeth's dialect ;0) !
M ale...
Jafrikayiti
«Depi nan Ginen bon nèg ap ede nèg!»
http://www.i-port.net/sd-in-j/
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