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Message:: [QUOTE="mirana, post: 10588888, member: 79705"]Dumas père's grandmother Marie-Cessette was an enslaved woman from what was then Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and she was described as Black African so she may have been born in Africa. His grandfather Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de La Pailleterie was a jackass who, after deciding to go back to France, sold Marie-Cessette and her three other children (two of whom were his daughters) to someone else on the island. Dumas père's father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, did not take his father's name (instead using what is thought to be a name representing his mother) because his father demanded that he not use it if he was going to join the army as a private and not an officer (black noblemen had a difficult time claiming rightful titles). Alexandre Dumas père very much considered himself mixed race and famously laid out this sick burn against a racist: "My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends." Y'all can see why any American African decent man would be proud to be in a club with his name. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> General Dumas' life was incredibly interesting as well. He may have been the inspiration for The Count of Monte Cristo and the musketeers in the D'Artagnan Romances. [ATTACH=full]531161[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]