Black from French West Indies fell in Corsica In 1802, hundreds - TopicsExpress



          

Black from French West Indies fell in Corsica In 1802, hundreds of Caribbean - Guadeloupe and Haiti - were deported to Corsica by Napoleon Bonaparte. These deportees, who were usually the elite of African-Caribbean descendants, including Mills, the first African member, and many senior officers were installed without clothes and chained in a converted monastery in Ajaccio camp Negroes. The remains of the camp are still visible. The prisoners were put to work in the winter, in the snow to build the road between Ajaccio and Bastia (now National 193) in the region of very steep Vizzavona pass, where they were also used to transport large trees (Corsican pine) forest Vizzavona (which was used for making boat masts). Most of the deportees died at during the exhausting tasks.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:22:19 +0000

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