Because there is little archival evidence of her role in the overthrow of French colonial rule, some scholars, like Philipe Girard, deny her existence. Many accounts state that Flon was the goddaughter and principal assistant to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of the independent republic of Haiti. Flon has also come to embody and symbolize the contributions of enslaved women that have historically been overlooked in Haiti-and throughout the African diaspora-in large part because detailed accounts of enslaved women are largely absent from the archival records on which many historians and writers have based their scholarship. Her role in Haitian popular memory is similar to that of Betsy Ross in the United States, who is famed for crafting the nation’s first flag and viewed as a symbol of women’s participation in the American Revolution. Catherine Flon has been mythologised for sewing together the first flag of the independent black Republic of Haiti in 1803.
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