Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and politician (born 1646)

Jean-Baptiste du Casse

French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator

Jean-Baptiste du Casse was a French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of Saint-Domingue from 1691 to 1700. Born on 2 August 1646 in Saubusse, France to a Huguenot family, du Casse enlisted in the French merchant…