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Jean Saint Malo in French (died June 19, 1784), also known as Juan San Maló in Spanish, was the leader of a group of runaway enslaved Africans, known as Maroons, in Spanish Louisiana.
The Spanish colonial authorities led a campaign to suppress slave revolts and eliminate Maroon colonies in the region, capturing more than a hundred escaped slaves.[2][3] In 1783, Col. Francisco Bouligny led an expedition against Bas du Fleuve, capturing 60 people, including Saint Malo.[2][4]
Jean Saint Malo was condemned to death by hanging, on charges of murder. The execution was carried out by the alcalde Francisco Maria de Reggio on June 19, 1784, in front of St. Louis Cathedral next to the present-day Jackson Square in New Orleans.[4]
^Powell, Lawrence N. (13 April 2012). The Accidental City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 238–244. ISBN 978-0-674-06544-4.
^ abDin, Gilbert C. (1999). Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0890969043.
^Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo (1995). Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807119997.
^ abVoisin, Erin Elizabeth (2008). Saint Maló remembered (MA). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University.
^Filipino-American history: The Other Spirit of St. Louis- Reviewed 2017-05-10
General referencesedit
"Juan San Maló" (1988). In A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. II. New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Association. p. 714
Burson, Caroline Maude (1940). The stewardship of Don Esteban Miró, 1782–1792: a study of Louisiana based largely on the documents in New Orleans. New Orleans, Louisiana: American Printing Co., Ltd.
Din, Gilbert C. (1980). "Cimarrónes and the San Maló Band in Spanish Louisiana". Louisiana History. XXI (3).
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo (1995). Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807119997.
Medley, Keith Weldon (2000). "Black New Orleans." American Legacy Magazine (transcription)