Boni, a well-known name but more than a name, a legend, a myth almost. Boni, more than a man, a character beyond any common measure. A kind of demigod who haunts and fascinates memories and camps in the great river of history, now out of time and boundaries. (Excerpt from our weekly of 31.12.20)
Boni is a mystery. Who was he ? When and where was he born? How did he die ? To these questions, as to many others, no precise answer. Guesses, speculations, presumptions. What were the real intentions of the prodigious Neg’marron? Mystery. Boni, an arcane in short.
A black Native American mestizo?
Despite everything, a certainty. Boni was not a bossale, but a Creole brown, that is to say a slave born in the forests of the Dutch colony of the time …-
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Malgré tout, une certitude. Boni n’était pas un bossale, mais un marron créole, c’est-à-dire un esclave né dans les forêts de la colonie hollandaise de l’époque…
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