Belle Shabine

Search This Blog

Posted by Frances-Anne on July 25, 2017

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

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 ...

Andre Schwarz Bart - La Mulatresse Solitude

From the epilogue to "A Woman Named Solitude" by Andre Schwarz-Bart If the traveler insists, he will be permitted to visit the remains of the old Danglemont plantation. The guard will wave his hand, and as though by magic a tattered black field worker will appear. He will greet the lover of old stones with a vaguely incredulous look, and they will start off.…[T]hey will stroll this way and that and ultimately come to a remnant of knee-high wall and a mound of earth intermingled with bone splinters.…Conscious of a faint taste of ashes, the visitor will take a few steps at random, tracing wider and wider circles around the site of the mansion. His foot will collide with one of the building stones, concealed by dead leaves, which were dispersed by the explosion and then over the years buried, dug up, covered over, and dug up again by the innocent hoes of the field workers. If he is in the mood to salute a memory, his imagination will people the environing space, and human fig...

Powered by Blogger

Comments

Post a Comment