Marie Joseph Angelique was a black slave that was in the Atlantic slave trade. The Atlantic slave trade was the trade of African people supplied to the colonies of the new world that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. She was sold to a man named Nicolas Bleeker who brought her to the New World. She lived in New England before being sold to a french business man from Montreal named Francois Poulin de Francheville. Francois Poulin de Francheville died in 1733. Angelique worked in the Francheville home in Montreal, and occasionally helped on the family's small farm on the island of Montreal, witch was primaraly used for the Francheville's trading expadition.
Angelique had 3 children. A boy born in 1731 who died one month after he was born and 2 twins born in 1732 who died within 5 months. Angelique married a man from Madagascar named Jacques César. Angelique was found to have held a relationship with a white servant named Claude Thibault who was hired by the Francheville that was now dead. The widow asked her brother-in-law who's name was Alexis Moniere to keep both her slaves and her servent Claude Thibault untill she came back.
On February 22 while the widow Francheville was still away, Angelique and Thibalt planned on escaping to New England. They planned on going across the frozen St. Lawrence river and stoping to get bread. Thibalt had hidden in a barn in Longueuil in prepartion for thier trip. However, trvel was difficult in the winter and both of them were forced to hide in Châteauguay near the Chambly road, untill the wether was better. Both of them were cought a couple of weeks later by the militia captains. The widow was planing on selling Angelique now.
Thibalt was then sent to prison. When he was relesed Angelique planned on escaping again. Angelique told a servant that she planned on escaping by setting a fire as a destraction. In the evening of April 10,1734, while her owner was at church, Angelique was seen running out the door of her house screeming "fire!" the neibours attempted on putting out the blaze, but it spread quickly within 3 hours 46 buildings were destroyed. As Angelique and Thibalt were saving goods from the burning house rumors spread around thast they had set the fire but she denied them.
Angélique was charged and tried. French law at the time allowed for suspects to be arrested on the basis of "public knowledge" when the community was agreed upon their guilt. Over the next 6 weeks, the prosecution called a large number of witnesses, none of them knew anything about Angelique setting the fire, but they were certain that she did it. They knew Angelique as a badly behaved slave that usuly spoke back to her owner.
I think that she might have been influential becouse she might have influenced people to stop slavery becouse they knew that she hated being a slave so it must have been very bad. Slaves also got treated like they wern't human and that happend to Angelique. Angelique probably inspired someone to end slavery becouse it was so harsh.
