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Haitian Engineer Joseph Lemercier Laroche & Family Were The Only Black Passengers On The Titanic
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, was president of Haiti from 1911 to 1912.
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