Titanic Survivor Archives – L'union Suite https://www.lunionsuite.com/tag/titanic-survivor/ 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 Titanic Survivor Archives – L'union Suite https://www.lunionsuite.com/tag/titanic-survivor/ 32 32 85605167 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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