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Blue and Brown: Contraband Indigo and the Rise of a Free Colored Planter Class in French Saint-Domingue*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

John Garrigus
John Garrigus*
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Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida
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In 1791 the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue became the site of the only successful slave uprising in the history of the New World. As the French Revolution reshaped the political and social institutions of the mother country, Saint-Domingue's free people of color, led by an indigo planter from the island's southern peninsula, began a campaign for civil reform that helped destabilize colonial slave society. Despite their pivotal role in what would become the Haitian Revolution, relatively little is known about this important population. Widely acknowledged to be the largest and wealthiest group of its kind in the New World, this class comprised a remarkable 47 percent of the colony's free inhabitants in 1788. While elsewhere in the eighteenth-century Caribbean free coloreds tended to be urban based, most of Saint-Domingue's gens de couleur dwelt in the countryside and a number were successful planters. By 1790 members of this class owned enough slaves and plantations that they were said to possess one-third of the colony.

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The Americas , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , October 1993 , pp. 233 - 263
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1993

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I would like to thank Paul Lachance, Joan Scott, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot for their comments on an earlier version of this article.

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44 ANSOM, 7 April 1783, Belin Duressor! reg. 108, resilation de société, Aquin.

45 ANSOM, 12 August 1785, Monneront reg. 1409, vente, Aquin; ANSOM, 8 October 1785, Monneront reg. 1409, transport de créance, Aquin; ANSOM, 24 May 1786, Monneront reg. 1410, depôt, Aquin; ANSOM, 22 June 1786, Monneront reg. 1410, dépôt, Aquin; ANSOM, 10 March 1787, Monneront reg. 1412, marché, Aquin; ANSOM, 23 March 1786, Monneront reg. 1410, marché, Aquin; ANSOM, 1 May, 1786, Monneront reg. 1410, marché, Aquin; ANSOM, 8 November 1787, Monneront reg. 1410, société, Aquin.

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49 ANSOM, 19 August 1761, Daudin de Belair reg. 429, donation, Aquin.

50 Free colored children of white men often spelled their names differently from their fathers, especially after a 1773 law prohibited such persons from using “white” names and ordered them to adopt names of African origin. Pierre Raymond’s children used both the spellings of the family name, though “Raimond” was used most frequently. Debbasch, Yvan, Couleur et liberté: Le jeu du critère ethnique dans un ordre esclavagiste (Paris, 1967), p. 69.Google Scholar

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56 ANSOM, 5 April 1785, Paillou reg. 1452, dépôt des papiers, Aquin.

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58 In 1775, for example, a Sarah Lopez “dePas” of Bordeaux married into a merchant family at Curaçao. See Isaac, S. and Emmanuel, Suzanne A., History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles (Cincinnati, 1970), pp. 828–30, 964–66Google Scholar; Pluchon, , Nègres et Juifs, p. 109;Google Scholar ANSOM, 15 November 1768, Belin Duressort reg. 102, procuration, Aquin.

59 ANSOM, 3 December 1754, Casamajor reg. 360, vente, Aquin; ANSOM, [illegible] February 1763, Daudin de Belair reg. 430, vente, Aquin; the median price for the sale of rural land in the Saint Louis quartier of which Aquin formed a part was 6,750 livres in the period 1760–69. The average price was 23,846 livres.

60 Loker, Zvi, Jews in the Caribbean: Evidence on the History of the Jews in the Caribbean Zone in Colonial Times (Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, Institute for Research on the Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage, 1991), p. 230,Google Scholar contains a transcription of AN, Col C9A 120 “IIIème Expedition / Nottes sur les Juifs de St. Louis, et des Cayes qui ont offert par requêtes et pour être tolerés de contribuer au bien publique” by then governor Charles d’Estaing; Loker, Jews in the Caribbean, pp. 255, 265, reproduces documents illustrating the major role played by the Gradis in furnishing specie for royal operations in Saint-Domingue in the 1770s and 1780s; Ibid., pp. 238–39, reprints documents from AN Col. E 209 and 210 describing the successful attempt of the Depas and Gradis families in 1781 to insure their inheritance of an estate at Aquin.

61 In July 1773 the Council of Port-au-Prince registered an ruling by the colonial governor and intendant that “To usurp the name of a white family line [‘race’] could cast doubt on the status of persons, confuse the succession of estates, and eventually destroy the insurmountable barrier between whites and people of color established by public opinion and maintained by the wisdom of the government.” All free people of color were henceforth to adopt “a surname drawn from the African idiom, or from their profession and color, which however can never be that of a white colonial family.” De Saint-Méry, Moreau, Lois et constitutions des colonies françaises de l’Amérique sous le vent, 6 vols. (Paris, 1785–90), V, p. 448.Google Scholar

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64 ANSOM, 15 October 1783, Paillou reg. 1451, inventaire, Aquin.

65 ANSOM, 10 January 1785, Paillou reg. 1452, mariage, Aquin; ANSOM, 11 April 1785, Paillou reg. 1452, mariage, Aquin; ANSOM, 7 July 1785, Paillou reg. 1452, mariage, Aquin.

66 ANSOM, 29 April 1773, Belin Duressort reg. 105, inventaire, Aquin; ANSOM, 9 February 1768, Depuis de Lavau reg. 582, testament, Nippes; Moreau de Saint Méry, Description, pp. 1235, 1462.

67 ANSOM, 4 June 1756, Delinois reg.478, mariage, Saint Louis.

68 ANSOM, 12 December 1761, Daudin de Belair reg. 429, mis en possession, Aquin.

69 ANSOM, 29 January 1788, Cartier reg. 341, inventaire, Aquin.

70 ANSOM, 28 January 1788, Cartier reg. 341, inventaire, Aquin.

71 Emmanuel, History of the Jews, p. 966; ANSOM, 22 February 1783, Paillou reg. 1451, manage, Aquin; ANSOM, 5 April 1785, Paillou reg. 1451, dépôt des papiers, Aquin,

72 ANSOM, 19 March 1765, Daudin de Belair reg. 432, inventaire, Aquin.

73 Letter annexed to ANSOM, 9 February 1763, Daudin de Belair reg. 430, procès verbal, Aquin.

74 ANSOM, 29 January 1788, Cartier reg. 341, inventaire, Aquin.

75 ANSOM, 17 November 1785, Belin Duressort reg. 108, manage, Aquin.

76 Note that the general census, over this same period, reported that free coloreds in Aquin’s quartier jumped from being 16 percent of the free population in 1771 (146 of 888) to 47 percent in 1788 (926 of 1959). The inadequacy of census reporting is discussed below.

77 These are taken from a study of the 4,882 notarial records surviving from the quartiers of Cayes, Nippes and Saint Louis in the period 1760–69. Of these, 565 were from the parish of Aquin. The sales analyzed in this table include all sales of urban and rural land, slaves, animals, and boats drafted by the notaries of this parish. For a more complete analysis, see Garrigus, “A Struggle for Respect,” chap. 5.

78 These are taken from the 1,339 surviving notarial contracts drafted in Aquin, in the period 1780–89. As above, these sales include urban and rural land, slaves, animals and boats.

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82 ANSOM, G1509, Nos. 26 and 27.

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84 ANSOM, G1509, No. 33.

85 Ibid., Nos. 32, 33, and 38.

86 Ibid., Nos. 33 and 38; Debbasch, Couleur et liberté, p. 101. This was one of the major themes of Raimond, Julien, Observations sur l’origine et les progrès du prejugé des colons blancs contre les hommes de couleur (Paris, 1791).Google Scholar

87 ANSOM, 26 September 1775, Belin Duressort reg. 106, mariage, Aquin; ANSOM, 9 February 1763, Daudin de Belair reg. 430, procès verbale, Aquin; see letter cited above.

88 ANSOM, 5 July 1787, Cartier reg. 341, vente, Aquin.

89 ANSOM, 9 May 1781, Monneront reg. 1403, transport de créance, Aquin; ANSOM, 8 March 1783, Monneront reg. 1405, vente, Aquin; AN, Col F391, p. 191. A griffe was the female child of a mulatto and a white, according to Moreau de Saint Méry, Description, 86.

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