Biography of julien fedon

Leader of slave revolt in Grenada

Julien Fédon (? – 1796?), also called Julien Fedon, Foedonn, Feydn, and Fidon, was the leader of the Fédon Rebellion, a revolt against British rule led primarily by free mixed-race French-speakers that took place in Grenada between 2 March 1795 and 19 June 1796.

The Fédon Rebellion broke out in the same year as several other rebellions in the Caribbean, including in Cuba, Jamaica, and Coro, Venezuela.

Biography of julien fedon

During the 19th and 20th centuries, Fédon was considered a folk hero in Grenada and influenced the nationalist leaders and revolutionaries of the island.^[1]

Biography

Julien Fédon was born on the island of Martinique.^[1] He was the son of Pierre Fédon, a French jeweler who had migrated to Martinique from Bordeaux, France, in 1749.

His mother was a freed black slave. The family moved to Grenada in the 1750s, when the island was under French rule.^[2] However, according to a historian, Edward Cox, Féd