Raimond, Julien, 1744-1801
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Name (Latin)
Raimond, Julien, 1744-1801
Other forms of name
Raimond, J. (Julien), 1744-1801
Raymond, Julien, 1744-1801
Date of birth
1744-10-18
Date of death
1801-10
Place of birth
Bainet (Haiti)
Associated country
Haiti
Other associated place
France
Field of activity
Politics, Practical
Civil service
Antislavery movements
Associate group
Société des citoyens de couleur
Occupation
Politicians
Abolitionists
Authors, Black
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Bonnières, A.-J.-B. de. Consultation en faveur d'Alazard et Raimond, 1795.
- LC data base, 9/10/90(hdg.: Raimond, Julien, 1743?-1802?; usage: M. Raymond; Raimond)
- Bib. nat.(hdg.: Raimond, Julien; usage: Julien Raimond; Julien Raymond; J. Raimond; M. Raimond)
- Julien Raimond (b. in Bainet, Haiti, Oct. 16, 1744; d. 1801) was a Haitian politician; succeeded in making the question of equal rights for free people of color into the leading colonial question before the National Assembly in 1790 and 1791 ( (Wikipedia, Oct. 18, 2013) )
- Unsung Francophone Heroes: Julien Raimond (1744-1801); born to a French colonist and a mulatto woman, he was educated in Toulouse, France; although he was extremely wealthy, Raimond challenged the French government to reform racially discriminatory laws in Saint-Domingue; Raimond moved to France in the mid 1780s and first worked at the French Colonial Ministry; he created the Société des citoyens de couleur and influenced the French National Assembly for the rights of free men of color, a campaign that resulted in the decree of May 15, 1791; wrote over two-dozen brochures addressing the National Assembly urging recognition of the rights of the free men of color in the colonies; allied with Toussaint L'Ouverture, he joined a committee that wrote the self-governing 1801 Constitution for Saint-Domingue; died shortly after the document was publicized on July 8, 1801 ( (blackfrance Website, Oct. 18, 2013) )
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Wikipedia description:
Julien Raimond (1744–1801) was a Saint Dominican indigo planter in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now the Republic of Haiti, who became a leader in its revolution and the formation of Haiti.
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