1816
1816: Joseph Saint-Rémy was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, to free mulatto parents before his family moved to the South of Haiti.
1816: Joseph Saint-Rémy was born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, to free mulatto parents before his family moved to the South of Haiti. He claimed Haitian citizenship under the 1816 constitution and became a prominent lawyer and historian.
Source · p. 90
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 90