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CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGE: THE FIRST BLACK SUPERSTAR?(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
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August 5, 2004
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Byline: William H. Alexander
A recent article in the Parade section of The Virginian-Pilot about African-American members of this year's U.S. Olympic fencing team brings to mind the unique accomplishments of the world's first black fencing master in 18th-century France.
Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George, was born in Guadeloupe in 1739 to a beautiful Senegalese slave woman and an aristocratic French plantation owner. As occasionally happened even within the oppressive slave systems of the Caribbean, Joseph's father was fond of his son and undertook ...
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