Paris Names Park After Black Woman Who Resisted Slavery

French actress Marie-Noelle Eusebe delivers her speech during the inauguration of a park honoring ‘Solitude’, a woman who fought for the liberation of slaves on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, in Paris, Saturday Sept. 26, 2020. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, second left, plans to erect a statue in honour of Solitude at the site, the city’s first statue honoring a Black woman. Amid global protests against monuments to white men linked to colonialism or the slave trade, French leaders have pushed instead to erect new monuments to more diverse, lesser-known historical figures. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

The city of Paris inaugurated a public garden Saturday honoring a woman who fought for the liberation of slaves on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

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