Jean François Canonge
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1783
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| Birthplace |
Jérémie, Haiti
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| Died |
19th January, 1848
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| Place of Death |
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
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Jean François Canonge (1784 – January 19, 1848) lawyer, judge, slave owner, clerk, and politician.
He was the judge who provided the deposition on the mistreatment of slaves by Delphine LaLaurie.
Jean studied law with French American linguist and philosopher Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
He spoke French, Spanish, and Haitian Creole and functioned as an orator, linguist, and improviser for the Louisiana legislature as a clerk for over ten years.
He translated Georgics into Haitian Creole and was a Grand Master Freemason.
Records indicate Jean and his wife Amelie Mercier freed two slaves Joseph and Marcel.
His son was the dramatist Louis Placide Canonge.
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