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Marie Marguerite Rose (1717 - August 27, 1757) was an Guinea-born Canadian slave. In 2008, Rose was made a Person of National Historic Significance by the Government of Canada. ==Biography== In 1736, Jean Chrysostome Loppinot, a French navel officer posted in Louisbourg, on Île Royale, modern-day Cape Breton, purchased Rose at an unknown price. She was then baptized in September, given a French name and possibly branded. The certificate of her baptism places her at approximately nineteen years old. For total of nineteen years, she performed domestic duties, such as cooking meal, washing clothes and scrubbing floors, in the Loppinot household, which included up to 12 children.〔http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/2011-07-15/article-2656897/Fortress-Louisbourg-exhibit-celebrates-life-of-Marie-Marguerite-Rose/1〕 During this time, she became pregnant to an unknown father, later giving birth to a son, Jean-Francois. Jean-Francois became a de facto slave until his death at the age of thirteen. Shortly after the fall of Louisbourg in 1745, she and her son, along with the Loppinot family, moved to Rochefort, despite the illegality of slavery in France. In 1749, they returned to Louisbourg, where her son died. She was manumitted in 1755.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Public Lecture – Feb. 27: "Marie Marguerite Rose and Slavery in Louisbourg, 1713-1768" by Historian Ken Donovan )〕 In the autumn of that year, she married a free Mi'kmaw man, Jean-Baptist Laurent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marie Marguerite Rose )〕 In 1756, she and her husband rented a house from Bernard Parris, a navy captain. The couple began a tavern in Louisbourg, at the corner of Saint-Louis Street and Place d’Armes, near the barracks.〔http://www.pc.gc.ca/APPS/CP-NR/release_e.asp?bgid=1409&andor1=bg〕 In 1757, her second year of freedom, she died. She was buried at the Fortress of Louisbourg. At her death an inventory was taken. "She had an extensive collection of used clothing and a pair of half-made woollen stockings. Her other possessions were balls of handmade soap, an iron, supplies for dyeing clothes, six pounds of sugar and a cookbook," despite her inability to read. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie Marguerite Rose」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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