Louis Laroche Archives – L'union Suite https://www.lunionsuite.com/tag/louis-laroche/ Country - People - Culture Thu, 03 Sep 2020 19:53:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.lunionsuite.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-IMG_0226-32x32.jpg Louis Laroche Archives – L'union Suite https://www.lunionsuite.com/tag/louis-laroche/ 32 32 85605167 Haitian Descendant Of Joseph Laroche “Only Black & Haitian Man On Titanic” Speaks Out https://www.lunionsuite.com/haitian-descendant-of-joseph-laroche-only-black-haitian-man-on-titanic-speaks-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haitian-descendant-of-joseph-laroche-only-black-haitian-man-on-titanic-speaks-out https://www.lunionsuite.com/haitian-descendant-of-joseph-laroche-only-black-haitian-man-on-titanic-speaks-out/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:58:32 +0000 http://lunionsuite.com/?p=17266 Two years ago, I remember reading and finding out that the only black family aboard the Titanic ship on April 10, 1912 was a Haitian Engineer name Joseph Lemercier Laroche and his family. I was so drawn to the family, I read everything I could find about it and missed this story. A year ago a story was published about a descendant of the Laroche family who […]

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]]> https://www.lunionsuite.com/haitian-descendant-of-joseph-laroche-only-black-haitian-man-on-titanic-speaks-out/feed/ 6 17266 Haitian Engineer Joseph Lemercier Laroche & Family Were The Only Black Passengers On The Titanic https://www.lunionsuite.com/haitian-engineer-joseph-lemercier-laroche-family-were-the-only-black-passengers-on-the-titanic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haitian-engineer-joseph-lemercier-laroche-family-were-the-only-black-passengers-on-the-titanic https://www.lunionsuite.com/haitian-engineer-joseph-lemercier-laroche-family-were-the-only-black-passengers-on-the-titanic/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:28:46 +0000 http://lunionsuite.com/?p=12628 Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, the only passenger of known African ancestry who died on the Titanic, was born on May 26, 1889, in Cap Haiten, Haiti. He was the son of a white French army captain and a Haitian woman who was a descendant of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of independent Haiti. Laroche’s uncle, Dessalines M. Cincinnatus, […]

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