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Gaou Guinou was an African prince who has been claimed to be the grandfather of famed Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture. He may have been in the royal family of Allada as well as a member of the Fon people. He was reportedly captured and enslaved by his brother, Hussar, and his wife, Queen Aitta in 1724.
1 de dez. de 2008 · Toussaint Louverture is thought to have been born enslaved around 1739–1746 on the plantation of Bréda at Haut de Cap on the northern coast of Saint-Domingue, present day Haiti. His father, Gaou Guinou was the son of the king of Benin in West Africa and his mother, Pauline, was Guinou’s second wife.
Louverture's son Issac would later name his great-grandfather, Hyppolite's father, as Gaou Guinou and a son of the King of Allada, although there is little extant evidence of this.
31 de jul. de 2023 · Gaou Guinou was an African prince and the son of King Soso of Allada, a West African kingdom involved in the slave trade. He was captured and sold into slavery in Saint Domingue, where he became Hypolite and had a son named Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian hero.
The second brother, Gaou Guinou, father of Toussaint Louverture, was then the "pretendant" and legitimate heir to the throne of Allada since his brother Hussar had disappeared. The name Gaou meant "Minister of war" and Guinou meant "he who is always on the battlefield i.e., he who doesn't only sit behind a desk."
Seu pai Hippolyte, ou Gaou Guinou, era um aristocrata, mas por volta de 1740, o Império Dahomey, outro reino da África Ocidental no que hoje é o Benin, capturou sua família e os vendeu como escravos.
28 de fev. de 2016 · Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution, the first successful slave rebellion against the French colony of Saint-Domingue. His father was Gaou Guinou, a West African king captured and sold into slavery.
