Author · Trinidad and Tobago
Jean-Baptiste Philippe
Died in 1829
Jean-Baptiste Philippe was born in 1796 or 1797 in the Naparima plain, in Trinidad, into a Catholic family of planters of colour. Sent as a child to study in England, he studied medicine in Edinburgh, graduated in 1815 and came back to practise on his island, one of the first Black doctors of the West Indies. He became leader of the free people of colour in the south of the island and in 1823 led a delegation to London. He died in 1829, aged thirty-three.
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