Fifi
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This person of African descent has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02621
- Given Name
- Fifi
- Sex
- Female
- Biographical Description
- Fifi was a French-speaking Black woman who grew up in Saint Domingue (now Haiti). She was enslaved by Jacques Philipe Rossignol de Grandmont, a French planter who fled the island during the Haitian Revolution. Fifi was brought to Trenton, New Jersey, when Grandmont relocated there in the 1790s. Fifi was one of the people who ran away from Grandmont in 1804.
- Keywords
- African descent person
- Francophone
- Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
- Linked Events
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Primary Participant in:
- 1804-05 Freedom Seeking: Fifi (Role: Runaway)
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