Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (English Wikipedia)

Six, Georges (1934). "Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre-Davy". Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire : 1792-1814 (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie Historique et Nobilaire. pp. 394–395.

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Toussaint Louverture was commissioned as "general-in-chief" of the army in French Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. Alfred-Amédée Dodds, who was of one-eighth African descent, became a general of division in 1898 and general-in-chief in 1900, but commanded only colonial troops. La Revue hebdomadaire, 2nd series, 4th year, v. 9, 4 August 1900, n.p., and in Mariani, Angelo and Uzanne, Joseph, eds., Figures contemporaines: Tirées de l'album Mariani v. 6 (Paris: H. Floury, 1901), n.p."Le Général Dodds". Abram Petrovich Gannibal had achieved major-general rank in the Imperial Russian Army by 1752. In continental Europe, however, Alexandre Dumas is the only general of division and general-in-chief in modern history.
Compare: Christopher L. Miller, The French Atlantic triangle: literature and culture of the slave trade. Duke University Press, 2008. p.20 ISBN 978-0-8223-8883-8- "But the moral and legal context in France was complex. Conditions of slavery and servitude were offset by what Sue Peabody calls the Freedom Principle: the notion, supported by a decree of Louis X in 1315, that 'France' signifies freedom and that any slave setting foot on what we now call the hexagon should be freed. There was a tradition of freeing slaves, and it remained influential, if often undercut, during the time of the Atlantic slave trade."

Madison Smartt Bell (6 October 2012). "'The Black Count' by Tom Reiss". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 4 May 2013.

Christel Mouchard [in French] (3 April 2019). "Alex, fils d'esclave" [Alex, son of a slave]. flammarion-jeunesse.fr (in French). Illustrated by François Roca. Flammarion Jeunesse. p. 240. ISBN 9782081419971. Retrieved 3 December 2023.

Valentine, Rebekah (9 July 2020). "Ambition: A Minuet in Power's extravagant aspirations". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 11 September 2021.

Jacobo Valcárcel, "A black slave, Marie-Cesette Dumas", GuinGuin Bali website, 3 February 2010, accessed 16 October 2012.

Volper, Julien; Rykner, Didier (12 May 2021). "La Case du siècle : la propagande En Marche" [The Case of the century: propaganda On the Move]. latribunedelart (in French). Retrieved 21 May 2022. Durant l'occupation allemande, le gouvernement de Vichy, faisant suite au décret du 11 décembre 1941, avait effacé la mémoire d'un officier supérieur d'origine africaine, le général Dumas [...], en faisant mettre à bas sa statue.

Ribbe, Claude (30 October 2023). "Cité de la langue française: oui, il fallait restaurer le château de Villers-Cotterêts... Mais à cause de Napoléon" [City of the French language: yes, the castle of Villers-Cotterêts had to be restored... But because of Napoleon]. Marianne (in French). Retrieved 3 December 2023. Original French: Quand on sait que le futur général Dumas – qui était aussi un cousin de François Ier puisqu'ils avaient des ancêtres communs (entre autres Jean Ier d'Armagnac et Béatrice de Clermont) – rencontra sa future épouse dans la cour du château de Villers-Cotterêts le 15 août 1789, 250 ans jour pour jour après la fameuse ordonnance prise dans ce même château[...]. Translation: When we know that the future general Dumas – who was also a [distant] cousin of François I since they had common ancestors (among others John I of Armagnac and Béatrice of Clermont) – met his future wife in the courtyard of the Château de Villers-Cotterêts on August 15, 1789, 250 years to the day after the famous ordinance was taken in this same castle[...].

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Christel Mouchard [in French] (3 April 2019). "Alex, fils d'esclave" [Alex, son of a slave]. flammarion-jeunesse.fr (in French). Illustrated by François Roca. Flammarion Jeunesse. p. 240. ISBN 9782081419971. Retrieved 3 December 2023.