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===General references===
===General references===
*''Black New Orleans'', Keith Weldon Medley, American Legacy Magazine (2000) ([http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Toca/Black_New_Orleans.htm transcription]){{Dead link|date= May 2017}}
*''Black New Orleans'', Keith Weldon Medley, American Legacy Magazine (2000) ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070712153820/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Toca/Black_New_Orleans.htm transcription])
* "Juan San Malo", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. II (1988), p. 714
* "Juan San Malo", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. II (1988), p. 714
* Caroline Burson, ''The Stewardship of Don Esteban Miro, 1782-1792'' (1940)
* Caroline Burson, ''The Stewardship of Don Esteban Miro, 1782-1792'' (1940)

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Jean Saint Malo in French (died June 19, 1784), also known as Juan San Malo in Spanish, was the leader of a group of runaway Enslaved Africans, known as Maroons, in Spanish Louisiana.

Saint Malo and his band escaped to a marshy area near Lake Borgne, with weapons obtained from free people of color and plantation Enslaved. The maroons lived in the swamps east of New Orleans and made their headquarters at Galliano, Louisiana, from 1780 to 1784.

The Spanish colonial authorities had mostly suppressed the Enslaved revolts by 1783, and more than a hundred of the runaways had been captured. Jean Saint Malo was condemned to death by hanging, on charges of murder. The execution was carried out by the alcalde Mario de Reggio on June 19, 1784, in front of St. Louis Cathedral (present-day Jackson Square, New Orleans).[1]

The Filipino community of Saint Malo, Louisiana, was named after him.

Coincidentally, June 19, the day of Juan San Malo's death, is also recognized by many African Americans as Juneteenth, the day that slavery officially ended in several Southern states, about eighty years later – although there is no connection.

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References

General references

  • Black New Orleans, Keith Weldon Medley, American Legacy Magazine (2000) (transcription)
  • "Juan San Malo", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. II (1988), p. 714
  • Caroline Burson, The Stewardship of Don Esteban Miro, 1782-1792 (1940)
  • Gilbert C. Din, "Cimarrones and the San Malo Band in Spanish Louisiana", Louisiana History, XXI (1980)
  • Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century(1992)