Some were given a royal gift of a dowry of 50 livres for their marriage to one of the many unmarried male colonists in Canada. Their transportation to Canada and settlement in the colony were paid for by the King. Most were single French women and many were orphans.
Most of the millions of people of French Canadian descent today, both in Quebec and the rest of Canada and the USA (and beyond!), are descendants of one or more of these courageous women of the 17th century. Some 737 of these women married and the resultant population explosion gave rise to the success of the colony.
They were part of King Louis XIV’s program to promote the settlement of his colony in Canada. The filles du roi, or King’s Daughters, were some 770 women who arrived in the colony of New France (Canada) between 16, under the financial sponsorship of King Louis XIV of France. Wikipedia has an article on the subject of the Daughter’s of the King (Les Filles du Roi) as well. This is being used under the laws of ‘fair use’. All rights belong to the original authors. From stories of slave rebellions to the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights era and the Black Power movement, invoking the biblical character of Samson became a powerful way for African American intellectuals, activists, and artists to voice strategies and opinions about many race-related issues, including slavery, education, patriotism, organized labor, civil rights, and gender equality.The information contained in this Posting was sourced from numerous websites (all noted below) and is presented here to facilitate our genealogical research. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Huey P. Along the way, Schipper and Junior engage the work of African-American luminaries, including Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper investigate legal documents, narratives by enslaved persons, speeches, sermons, periodicals, poetry, fiction, and visual arts to tell the unlikely story of how a flawed biblical hero became an iconic figure in America's racial history.
Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King were identified with Moses, African Americans linked those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. "The United States has never existed without a Black Samson.
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