L'histoire de Solitude - Mulatresse résistante

Some say Belle's real name is Solitude.

"Born around 1772, daughter of a slave, she experienced  the abolition of slavery in 1794, and joined a maroon community in Guadeloupe. When, in 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte re-established slavery in Guadeloupe, she responded to the call of Louis Delgre and fought at his side for liberty.

Survivor of the Battle of May 1802, pregnant, she was not executed  by hanging until November 29th of the same year - the morning after she gave birth.

She was to have been hung six months earlier, but the colonizers did not want any waste - her ripe belly would bring them 2 more arms on the plantation.

 She was called Mulâtresse Solitude on acccount of her light skin, as she was born of the rape of a captive african woman on the boat that brought her to the Antilles.

In 1999, a statue by Jacky Poulier was raised in her memory at Carrefour de LaCroix, on the Boulevard Des Heros at Abymes, Guadeloupe."

Links: From: Grioo.com   Mulâtresse SOLITUDE, résistante guadeloupéenne 

From:  L'histoire de la Mulâtresse SOLITUDE, résistante guadeloupéenne

From La mulatresse Solitude

It is rumoured that Solitude never died but escaped her captors and returned to the hills - changing her name and persona to Belle, living as a Leader among the Maroons until her natural death.

Some say after her hanging she returned as a spirit-guide in the person of Belle.







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