Château de Joux, Pontarlier (Toussaint Louverture)

Address: 
Château de Joux
25300 La Cluse-et-Mijoux
France
Telephone: 
International: +33 3 81 69 47 95 (landline); National: 03 81 69 47 95 (landline)
Site overview: 
The Château de Joux (Jura) was a state prison where Toussaint Louverture was imprisoned. Louverture was the first black general in the French army. He took the lead of the slave revolt against white settlers in 1791 in Haiti, and rebelled against Napoleon's decision to reinstate slavery, which led to his imprisonment Château de Joux in 1802. The Château de Joux is part of the "Route des Abolitions" (Road of the Abolitions), a network connecting the important sites of the history of the abolition of slavery in France. This international project, supported by the UN, includes five sites in eastern France located on the “road of the abolition of slavery and the Human Rights”, launched in 2004: the House of Anne-Marie Javouhey in Chamblanc, the House of Negritude in Champagney, the House of the Abbé Grégoire in Emberménil, the Chateau de Joux, and Schoelcher’s house in Fessenheim (now reopened as "Victor Shoelcher Museum, his lifework").
Keywords: 
French Republic
Haiti
Memories of slavery
Slave ancestry