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Mathieu Léveillé
1709–1743
Canada
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Mathieu Léveillé (1709 – September 9, 1743) was an executioner in New France, who was an enslaved person of African descent. For 24 years, had been enslaved and forced to work on a plantation in Martinique. According to some accounts, he repeatedly tried to escape, and was sentenced to death after his third attempt.
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