Jean Kina
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Jean Kina was a slave in the French colony of Saint Domingue who became a counterrevolutionary military leader in the Haitian Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars. His career began with the leadership of a slave militia formed by white planters in the Grand'Anse region. Kina eventually rose to become a Colonel in the British Army, which invaded Saint Domingue in 1793. After the evacuation of British forces from Saint Domingue, Kina served in the British-occupied French colony of Martinique, where he led a brief uprising against the local government on behalf of the rights of free people of color.[1]
References
- ^ David Geggus, "Slave, Soldier, Rebel: the Strange Career of Jean Kina," in Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Indiana University Press, 2002).