HIST 386 Final - Haitian Revolution Vocab

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Grand blancs

administration, aristocrats. Many are temporary citizens

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petits blancs

plantation overseers, lawyers, doctors, live in town, prone to resentment towards grands blancs and mulattoes

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Mulatto

mixed-race elite (favored children) usually plantation owners and merchants

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Code noir

prevented slaves from being beaten to death

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Vodou

main religion of slaves, draws from many different religions, is a religion of resistance

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Maroons

runaway slaves living in the mountains of Saint Domingue, used as tools for fighting by many revolutionary leaders

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Gens de couleur

free people of color

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Le Cap

largest and most influential city in northern Haiti, burnt down several times

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Yellow Fever

afflicted many European troops who didn’t have resistance to tropical environment

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cultivateurs

freed slaves who cultivate the land, basically become serfs

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Factors that contributed to the Haitian Revolution

Revolutionary ideas, personal struggles over power, international conflict, and class antagonism