Tooltip Categories: Terms
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Ancien libre
manumission of a person before the revolution, meaning before August 22, 1791.
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Libre
a person freed from slavery
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Manumission
release from slavery
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Escalin
a unit of currency created by Louverture, Toussaint in Santo Domingo.
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Commandeur
slave-driver–became know as conducteur postrevolution.
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Fatras-Bâton
literally means ‘skinny stick’–Louverture, Toussaint’s nickname as a youth.
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Bossale
African-born person on Saint-Domingue They would play a significant role in the Haitian revolution. By 1791, there were about between 500-700k bossales in Siant-Domingue
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Colon
A white desettler. We can no longer call white colonizers “settlers” because it erases the fact that they desettled the previous occupants of the land either through infectious diseases, rape, or mass genocides. (See petit blanc et grand blanc.)
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Petit blanc
Casimir, Jean, the Haitian historian, asked why they left the metropole. They were treated like crap back in the metropole and in the desettled so-called Saint-Domingue.
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Grand blanc