Abdaraya Toya "Victoria Montou" (Circa 1739–1805) was a Dahomey warrior and freedom fighter in the army of Jean-Jacques Dessalines during the Haitian Revolution.
Plantation owner Duclos was wary of their closeness, and decided to transfer Victoria Montou to the Déluger dwelling, selling Jean-Jacques to a black freedman named Dessalines.
[7] She was given a state funeral with a procession of eight sergeants and Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse Felicite dressed in black between two non-commissioned officers led the convoy.
Kersuze Simeon-Jones writes that "For her lasting influence on Dessalines, Abdaraya Toya shall be remembered as the grandmother, mother, and aunt-figure who helped prepare the Liberator of African descendants enslaved throughout the Americas".
[3] In 2023, she was one of the figures featured at the Panthéon, in Paris, in a double art and history exhibition highlighting little-known personalities who contributed to the abolition of the slave system.