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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Louis_Celeste_LecesneLouis Celeste Lecesne - Wikipedia

    Louis Celeste Lecesne (c. 1796 or 1798 – 22 November 1847), also known as Lewis Celeste Lecesne, was an anti-slavery activist from the Caribbean islands. Lecesne was on a committee to improve the rights of free men of colour. He was arrested twice, and transported for life from Jamaica with John Escoffery.

  2. www.ucl.ac.uk › lbs › personSummary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery - UCL

    Lewis or Louis Celeste Lecesne was the free man of colour expelled with John Escoffery from Jamaica to St Domingo in 1824, then finding their way to Britain where the case was taken up by Stephen Lushington and became subject of a libel suit arising from John Murray's publication of George W. Bridges writings about the case.

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  4. heritagecalling.com › 2016/11/14 › 5-black-heroes-of5 Black Heroes of the Abolition Movement in Britain

    Nov 14, 2016 · 5. Louis Celeste Lecesne: a fugitive who proved his innocence. Louis Celeste Lecesne fled penniless to England after a secret committee on the island of Jamaica exiled him to St Domingo. ‘The Anti-Slavery Society Convention’, 1840, by artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. © National Portrait Gallery, London.

  5. www.ucl.ac.uk › lbs › personSummary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery - UCL

    Louis Celeste Lecesne (c1798 – 22 November 1847) an anti-slavery activist from the Caribbean, on a committee to improve the rights of free men of colour, was arrested twice, and transported for life from Jamaica with John Escoffery, his brother-in-law.

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Celeste_LecesneCeleste Lecesne - Wikipedia

    James Celeste Lecesne (born November 24, 1954) is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and LGBT rights activist, best known for the Academy-award-winning short film Trevor. Lecesne has written several books including Absolute Brightness and Virgin Territory, and is also active in the entertainment industry as an actor and producer.

  8. academic.oup.com › past › articleAliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control ...

    Nov 22, 2021 · Three of Helicon’s passengers stood at the centre of these battles: Louis Celeste Lecesne, John Escoffery and John Gonville, all free men of colour in their late twenties who had been removed from Jamaica as aliens ‘of a most dangerous description’. 2

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  10. www.npg.org.uk › collections › searchLouis Celeste Lecesne - Person - National Portrait Gallery

    Louis Celeste Lecesne (1796 or 1798-1847), Slavery abolitionist. Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 4 portraits