Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a Creole general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France.
Portrait by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, c. 1797
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision [fr] of the German authorities
Portrait du Général Dumas, painting by Olivier Pichat (1825–1912) in the Alexandre Dumas Museum
Un héros de l'épopée - Le général Dumas au pont de Clausen; Dumas depicted at Clausen cutting down Austrian troops
Saint-Domingue was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1697 to 1804. The name derives from the Spanish main city on the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer specifically to the Spanish-held Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, now the Dominican Republic. The borders between the two were fluid and changed over time until they were finally solidified in the Dominican War of Independence in 1844.
A Creole servant boy and his mother
Drawing of a slave sale aboard the Marie Séraphique in the waters off Cap‑Français, 1773
Jean-Baptiste Belley, an affranchi who became a rich planter, elected member of the Estates General for Saint-Domingue, and later Deputy of the French National Convention
A rich Creole planter and his wife
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