Simone Brocard (1752 – d. ''after'' 1784), was a French slave trader of the French colony of

Saint-Domingue Saint-Domingue () was a French colony in the western portion of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the area of modern-day Haiti, from 1659 to 1804. The name derives from the Spanish main city in the island, Santo Domingo, which came to refer ...

. She has been referred to as the most well-documented free colored/ Mixed race woman in Cap-Francais of her generation. Brocard was a member of the free colored class in Saint-Domingue. She had two daughters with a white man, and appears to have belonged to the group of wealthy colored business women of the colony who had been a lover by placage to a white man, who left her with capital to start her own business after the termination of their relationship. In 1772, Brocard is noted to be an independent and rich businesswoman of note in the colony, and her business transactions are preserved to a large degree and the object of research. She was foremost a slave trader, whose main line of business was to buy and sell slaves from and to clients of the free colored class, mainly women. Brocard seemed to be involved not only in slave trade coming of incoming ships, but also of these born in the colony. The registries suggest that Brocard even sold slaves to free blacks living in Cap Français. There is little information on her family, although it seems that she had two daughters, her first daughter was born when Simone was fifteen or sixteen, and even when there is no mention of a possible father, both are described as "quadroons," daughters of a mulato woman and a white man.

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French slave traders 1752 births Year of death missing 18th-century Haitian people 18th-century French businesspeople People of Saint-Domingue French slave owners Women slave owners {{Haiti-bio-stub

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