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To: FewsOrange

Haiti is not listed, but one passenger who must have been listed as French was Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, who had been born in Haiti. He had been living in France for more than a decade, and his wife and two children were all born in France. He has been called the only passenger aboard the Titanic of known African ancestry.

http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html


28 posted on 06/24/2019 8:02:43 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: SMGFan

In “A Night to Remember” (1956) the author suggests that some of the more than 100 stokers laboring in the bowels of the ship were black.

A stoker who survived recalled scrambling up the ladder and seeing a black stoker slumped against a bulkhead, empty of hope, and singing to himself,

“Way down upon de Swanee ribber, far, far away.....”


53 posted on 06/24/2019 8:29:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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