North America-Guadeloupe
La Mulatresse Solitude (ca 1772-1802)
La Mulatresse Solitude (the Mulatto Solitude) is a national hero on the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe. Although very little...
Clémence Botino (1997- )
Clémence Botino, born to an Indo-Caribbean mother, Katia Botino, and an Afro-Caribbean father, Oliver Botino, on January 22, 1997, in...
Paul B. Cornely (1906-2002)
Paul B. Cornely is remembered today as a public health pioneer and civil rights leader whose activism contributed to the...
Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy (1648- )
Gustavia is the capital and main seaport of the island of Saint Barthélemy, also known as “St. Bart’s.” The Caribbean...
Gratien Candace (1873-1953)
French teacher and politician Gratien Candace was born on December 18, 1873 in Guadeloupe, a French overseas territory. His father Edouard was born in Guadeloupe as well,...
Camille Sosthène Héliodore Mortenol (1859-1930)
Image Ownership: DocAnciens/docpix.fr French naval hero Camille Mortenol was born November 29, 1859 in Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest city in the...
William Henry Hunt (1863-1951)
William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been...
Laura Élodie Flessel-Colovic (1971- )
Fencing champion and multiple Olympic medalist Laura Flessel-Colovic was born November 6, 1971, in Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest city on the...
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (1760-1832)
One of the few painters from the Americas with a degree of African ancestry who was active in the 1800s...
