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Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) [5] on his father's sugarcane plantation.He was the son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer (and privateer) from the south of Brittany, [6] and his mistress, Jeanne Rabine, [7] a 27-year-old chambermaid from Les Touches, Brittany (now in the modern region Pays de la Loire).
John Bachman (/ ˈ b æ k m ə n / BAK-mən; February 4, 1790 – February 24, 1874) was an American Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist who collaborated with John James Audubon to produce Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America and whose writings, particularly Unity of the Human Race, were influential in the development of the theory of evolution.
John James Audubon (1785–1851), American naturalist. He objected to Britain's abolition of slavery in the Caribbean and bought and sold enslaved people himself. [12] Stephen F. Austin, American-born empresario and one of the founders of the Republic of Texas. He owned a few slaves and worked hard to protect and expand slavery in Texas. [13]
The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the pro-slavery views of ornithologist and illustrator John James Audubon, the ...
Audubon spent four months at the home in 1821, teaching Eliza Pirrie, the teen-aged daughter of the plantation's owners James Pirrie and Lucretia "Lucy" Alston (Pirrie), to draw. This is when he completed his nature drawings on the site. [2] The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for its historical significance ...
Jacqueline L. Scott is a PhD student in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Birdwatching is open to all. This is the message Christian Cooper received as he was birding in New ...
NYC Bird Alliance was originally named in honor of John James Audubon, an ornithologist and naturalist who shot, [1] painted, catalogued, and described the Birds of North America. Audubon was a slave owner and anti-abolitionist, and while the National Audubon Society decided to retain the name, multiple local organizations have opted to change it.
In the 2020s reappraisal of figures involved with slavery, the organization announced in October 2021 that it would change its name to remove the reference to John James Audubon, who owned slaves, opposed the abolition of slavery, and wrote about the inferiority of Black and Indigenous people. [39]