Saint-Domingue’s racial system was built by men hiding African ancestry
Evidence
Raimond was suggesting that the man who had created an elaborate racial system meant to identify the nuances of descent, and who had become one of the most eloquent defenders of white privilege in Saint- Domingue, was a fugitive from his own African ancestors. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 251
Categorization
- QUESTION: If true, is this a common pattern among colonial racial legislators, worth checking against other plantation colonies?
- XREF: connects to: Dominican national identity invents indigenous descent to erase African ancestry; Saint-Domingue’s racial categories were too unstable to reliably distinguish people of African ancestry; Saint-Domingue’s administrators created racial categories by relabeling existing families as non-white — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 216 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dominican national identity invents indigenous descent to erase African ancestry; Saint-Domingue’s racial categories were too unstable to reliably distinguish people of African ancestry; Saint-Domingue’s administrators created racial categories by relabeling existing families as non-white — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 216 (+1 more)