Personality · Politics & public life
Revolutionary · Freedom fighter
📍 Birthplace Dahomey
1739 – June 12, 1805
Haiti
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Abdaraya Toya "Victoria Montou" was a Dahomey warrior and freedom fighter in the army of Jean-Jacques Dessalines during the Haitian Revolution. Before the Revolution she and Dessalines had been enslaved on the same estate, and the two remained close throughout her life, with Dessalines calling her his aunt.
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