Cyrille Bissette
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Cyrille Bissette was a French abolitionist, politician and publisher. A free person of color from Martinique, his radical activities and publications galvanized the abolition movement in France and it
Cyrille Bissette
Free people of color
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Free people of color were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent in the Americas who were not enslaved. However, the term also applied to people born free who were pr
Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, Dominica, c. 1764–1796
Free woman of color with quadroon daughter. Late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans.
Free West Indian Dominicans, c. 1770