France racism: Paris in memory of the figure of the slave revolt

Paris is to place a statue of the black woman involved in the 1802 uprising against slavery on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

The lonely named woman was arrested and possibly executed.

Opening a public garden in her honor on Saturday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called Solitude a “heroine” and a strong symbol.

France’s history of slavery is under new scrutiny, U.S. Due to the opposition of Black Lives Matter.

The soul has been discovered on the occasion of the public commemoration of colonial figures such as the 17th-century politician Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who supported foreign slavery and is remembered by a statue outside the National Assembly in Paris.

But President Emanuel Macron has spoken out against removing the names of statues or controversial figures, instead offering a “clear view on our history and our memory.”

The report notes that during the uprising against slavery, a mixed-race woman named Solute was arrested among the “rebel group” – who was re-established by Napoleon after being abolished during the French Revolution.

History records that she was sentenced to death, but was allowed to give birth before she was “tortured” – a vague word that could mean that she actually died after being beaten.

The solitude was depicted in a 1972 work of literature by the French writer Andr શ Schwarz-Bart, and a statue in Guadeloupe’s Les Abimes already pays homage to it.

The Solitude Garden is located on the Place du Jeanne Catalux in north-west Paris, where the statue will be erected in time.