I was wondering if there were any Black passengers on the Titanic. So I looked it up—and there was one Black man traveling with his family. His story could have been a movie by itself.
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was born in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, in 1886. At 15 he was sent to France to study and earned an engineering degree. There he met Juliette Lafargue, a French woman. They married and had two daughters, Simonne and Louise. Juliette was later pregnant with their third child.
Even with the degree, racial discrimination in France made good work almost impossible. The family decided to go back to Haiti. Joseph’s uncle, Cincinnatus Leconte, was president of Haiti and had promised him a job. Relatives bought them first-class tickets on the liner La France. When they learned that ship separated children from adults at meals, they traded those tickets for second-class passage on the Titanic so the girls could stay with them.
The plan was New York, then another ship home to Haiti.
They boarded at Cherbourg on April 10, 1912. Four nights later the ship hit the iceberg. Joseph got his pregnant wife and both daughters into a lifeboat. He told Juliette he would see her later. Those were the last words she heard from him. He was 25. His body was never found.
Juliette and the girls were pulled from the Atlantic and taken to New York. She spoke no English and had almost no money. She made it back to France and gave birth to a son, whom she named Joseph after his father. She never got over losing her husband.
Joseph was the only known Black adult man on the Titanic. His two daughters were also of Haitian ancestry. They were the ship’s only Black family. ❤️
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