Is Alexandre Dumas black?

Yes, Alexandre Dumas was of African descent.He was actually one-quarter black. His paternal grandfather was Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman who fell in love with a slave named Marie-Cesette ( an Afro-Carribean creole of mixed African and French ancestry). read more

General Alexandre Dumas was a mixed-race Haitian slave and swordsman who had been nearly erased from history by his jealous rival, Napoleon Bonaparte. General Dumas was born in 1762 to a slave mother and a white father in Haiti. His father was a fugitive. read more

Alexandre Dumas (UK: / ˈ dj uː m ɑː, d ʊ ˈ m ɑː /, US: / dj uː ˈ m ɑː /; French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dyma]; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie [dyma davi də la pajətʁi]; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père ("father"), was a French writer. read more