Thomy Lafon was a businessman and philanthropist. He was born a free man of color in New Orleans. His mother, Modest Foucher, was probably of Haitian descent and his father was Pierre Laralde, who was either of French or French and African descent. Lafon's early life was spent in poverty, but somehow he acquired enough […]

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