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Today I learned that Alexandre Dumas, writer of the Three Musketeers was of mixed heritage. And not in a happy way.

His father Thomas Dumas was born a slave, the son of a French noble and a slave woman. But his father took him to France thereby freeing him and Thomas in later life became a noted general in the French Revolutionary War.

There is zero account of his mother after her sale to another noble.
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Northwest · M
I thought Marie-Cessette Dumas was married to Thomas and had 4 kids with him. I took four year of French lit. A long time ago :-)