Jean-Baptiste Louis Philip was a Grenadian-born Trinidadian planter, and a member of the prominent free coloured (mixed-race) Philips family. He was the brother of Judith and Joachim Philip, the father of Jean-Baptiste and St Luce Philip, and probably the grandfather of Michel Maxwell Philip.
Early life
editLouis Philip was the son on Jeanette, a formerly enslaved woman, and her husband Honore Philip, a French baker turned planter. Honore and Jeanette had eight children — Magdalen, Suzanne, Judith, Honore, Michel, Joachim, Nicholas-Regis and Jean-Baptiste Louis.[1] Louis Philip and his brothers Honore and Joachim trained as carpenters while his youngest brother, Nicholas-Regis was a stone mason by training.[2]: 14
When Honore died in 1779 he left property to his children, his two brothers, François and Jean-Pierre, and his mother. When Jeanette died in 1788 she left more property to their children across Petit Martinique, Carriacou, and the main island of Grenada.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Candlin, Kit; Pybus, Cassandra (2018). Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-5387-6. OCLC 1005874585.
- ^ Candlin, Kit (2012). The last Caribbean frontier, 1795–1815. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-35408-1. OCLC 782988574.