| LC control no. | no 90022307 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Raimond, Julien, 1744-1801 |
| Variant(s) | Raymond, Julien, 1744-1801 Raimond, J. (Julien), 1744-1801 |
| Associated country | Haiti |
| Associated place | France |
| Birth date | 17441016 |
| Death date | 1801 |
| Place of birth | Bainet (Haiti) |
| Field of activity | Civil service Antislavery movements Politics and government |
| Affiliation | Société des citoyens de couleur |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Abolitionists Authors, Black |
| Found in | 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) Wikipedia, Oct. 18, 2013 (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) <http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Raimond&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRaimond,%2Ba%25C3%25AEn%25C3%25A9%26biw%3D1152%26bih%3D681> blackfrance Website, 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) <http://blackfrance.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/unsung-francophone-heroes-julien-raimond-1744-1801/> |
| Associated language | fre |
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