France racism: Paris to commemorate slave rebellion figure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54311183

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.css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}Paris is to put up a statue of a black woman involved in a 1802 rebellion against slavery on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
The woman, named only Solitude, was captured and possibly executed.
Opening a public garden in her honour on Saturday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called Solitude a “heroine” and a “strong symbol”.
France’s history of slavery has been under new scrutiny, in part because of the US Black Lives Matter protests.
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Statue vandalised in row over French slavery code - Colonial abuses haunt France’s racism debate
There has been soul-searching over public commemoration of colonial figures such as 17th-Century statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who codified overseas slavery and is remembered by a statue outside the national parliament in Paris.
But President Emmanuel Macron has spoken against removing statues or names of controversial figures, offering instead a “clear-headed look at our history and our memory”.
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Who was Solitude?
just one brief written mention in a 19th-Century history of Guadeloupe, according to Unesco.
That account records that Solitude, a mixed-race woman, was arrested among “a band of insurgents” during an uprising against slavery – which had been reinstated by Napoleon after being abolished during the French Revolution.
She was sentenced to death, the history notes, but allowed to give birth before being “tortured” – an ambiguous term which could mean she was indeed put to death, through flogging for example.
Solitude was portrayed in a 1972 work of fiction by French writer André Schwarz-Bart and a statue already honours her in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe.
The Solitude Garden is located on Place du Général Catroux in north-western Paris, where a statue will be erected in time.
honoured by both a square and a monument.
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