1. Pierre Joseph Marie Granville, known as Jonathas Granville was a Haitian educator, legal expert, soldier and a diplomat.
18 Facts About Jonathas Granville
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Jonathas Granville was a musician and poet, skilled swordsman, an experienced diplomat, and civil servant.
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From about 1806 to 1815, Granville served under Napoleon as a junior officer during the emperor's campaigns in Germany, France, and Austria.
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Jonathas Granville is considered to be the intellectual father of the 1843 Revolution that finally dislodged Jean-Pierre Boyer's authoritarian regime.
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Jonathas Granville was regarded as well-educated and refined, a man of knowledge and virtue.
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Jonathas Granville's father was a French tutor to Toussaint Louverture's sons and his mother was a mulatresse native of Jean-Rabel.
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On February 20,1806, after completing his studies at the National Institute des Colonies and trying out medicine for a while, Jonathas Granville enlisted in the Napoleonic army.
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Jonathas Granville had two children: Anne Victoire Jonathine and Henri Theodore Granville.
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When Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer, in collaboration with Joseph Balthazar Inginac extended an invitation for US Blacks to settle on Hispaniola, Jonathas Granville serving as his emissary played a major role in Boyer's plans.
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In May 1824, Jonathas Granville was sent to Philadelphia in an attempt to encourage freed blacks to migrate to Haiti.
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Jonathas Granville's message highlighted the benefits that Haiti provided, and eventually spread to Baltimore and Indiana.
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Jonathas Granville won over many influential people such as Nicholas Biddle, president of the Second Bank of the United States, merchant prince Stephen Girard, and Merchant David Correy.
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Also lending their support to Jonathas Granville were the Marquis de Lafayette and Scottish reformer Frances Wright.
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Jonathas Granville was often confused about the way black Americans lived and the things that concerned them, especially their constant disagreements about religion.
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Jonathas Granville left a lasting impression on many people in the United States, both Black and White.
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Jonathas Granville is himself a man of colour, but his information, diction, sentiments and manners, place him upon the level of the good society of any country.
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Jonathas Granville was directly responsible for the first ships that sailed from the United States with emigrants.
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Jonathas Granville never wrote or talked about this portrait, but he mentioned how he was being paraded in the USas a strange beast, being asked to talk and showing himself to others in an exotic manner.