Lhe mulâtresse Solitude (circa 1772 - 1802) is a historical figure in the resistance of black slaves in Guadeloupe. In 1999, a statue was erected in his memory at the crossroads of Lacroix, on Boulevard des Héros aux Abymes in Guadeloupe. In 2007, a statue was erected in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) on the occasion of the commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade On November 29, 1802 on the island of Guadeloupe, a woman, condemned to hang by order of France of Bonaparte once again slavery, is led to the scaffold. She is thirty. She is nicknamed the Mulatto Solitude because of her fair skin, the result of the rape of an African captive on the boat that took her to the West Indies.
1) Historical Background
Eight years earlier, in the euphoria of the post-Revolution period, France had decreed the abolition of slavery in its colonies despite the opposition of the white planters who controlled the economy. Freed from their chains, the blacks will try to rebuild a life far from the tyranny of the old masters.
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