The real Count of Monte Cristo was Alexandre Dumas's father, a trailblazing Black general
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The real Count of Monte Cristo was Alexandre Dumas's father, a trailblazing Black general
No one could have foreseen the rise of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. Born enslaved, he became France’s first Black general—a war hero, a champion of liberty and a pioneer of equality during the French Revolutionary Wars. Dumas’s fall from grace, however, was swift. Fellow general Napoleon Bonaparte envied and feared him. His nation betrayed him ...
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