Tooltip Categories: Terms
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gens de couleur
mixed-race people
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Fon
language spoken by Alladas
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Émigré
French person who fled the colony during the revolution.
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Curé
priest
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Cultivateur
plantation worker, postrevolution; aka slave prerevolution
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Creole
native of Saint-Domingue, no matter the color
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Cercle
gatherings at which Toussaint met members of the public
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Cabildos
municipalities in the Spanish territory of Santo Domingo
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Artibonite
Saint-Domingue’s largest river.
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Ancien Régime
French political system pre-1789 French Revolution