CORRECTION: Al Pouessi (1765-1870) was an #Ethiopian woman enslaved at the age of 14, sold to Pierre & François Testas, slave-traders from Bordeaux & owners of a sugar plantation in #Haiti One of her descendants was former president of Haiti, François Denys Légitime (1841 1935) 
"She travelled to Bordeaux, where she was baptized by the Testas brothers in 1781, giving her the name Marthe Adelaïde Modeste Testas. The same year, she was transported with François Testas to their plantation in Haiti...
As an enslaved person, Testas could not consent to a relationship or sex and the circumstances under which she had two children with her owner are not known. In 1795 François Testas left Haiti for New York, travelling with his enslaved servants, who included Modeste Testas and...
Joseph Lespérance. After moving to Baltimore, François died in Philadelphia. However, in his will he freed the slaves he owned. For Testas, however, one of the conditions of her emancipation was that she would marry Lespérance.
The couple returned to Haiti, where Testas inherited fifty-one tiles of land. She and Lespérance had a number of children.
Testas died in 1870 at the age of 105 years, on the Testas estate, located near to Jérémie.
Testas died in 1870 at the age of 105 years, on the Testas estate, located near to Jérémie.
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