Notes on Jean Kina
- P. 280 Geggus: ex-slaves "...led by much feared and very able Jena
Kina Sept. 1793."
- April 16, 1794 Rigaud attacked Tiburon. Jean Kina's troops
"...conspicuously taking the greatest risks." He had long been a vital
part of the southern plantocracy.
- Nov. 1794 His corps was placed on footing of 5 years service then
freed.
- P. 242 Jean Kina purchased fighting men. (Mix of free and slave)
- p. 320. Jean Kina was an African from a cotton estate in the bay of
Carcasseu near Tiburon. Lived 20 years in San Domingo.
- Had between 200-5-- men. Loyal to whites
- Like Kina thousands of blacks became armed and loyal defenders of the
slave regime.
- After occupation of PaP Kina became less valuable.
- Oddly and ironically, Colonel Jean Kina led a revolt against the
plantocracy in Dec. 1800 in Korngold:
p. 236. Kina was to meet Toussaint's sons at Dover in an abduction plot.
Toussaint Louverture.
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