Tag: Journal of Negro History

  • Mulatto Machiavelli, Jean Pierre Boyer, and The Haiti of His Day John Edward Baur The Journal of Negro History Volume 32, Number 3 (July, 1947) pages 307-353 Toussaint Louverture opened the gate of Haitian liberty, but Jean Pierre Boyer kept it open. Toussaint, ” First of the Blacks,” may be called the Washington of Haiti, but…

  • To the whites, all Africans who were not of pure blood were gens de couleur [people of color]. Among themselves, however, there were jealous and fiercely-guarded distinctions: “griffes, briques, mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons, each term meaning one degree’s further transfiguration toward the Caucasian standard of physical perfection.”1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Lousiana: Part I,”…

  • The title of a possible discussion of the Negro in Louisiana presents difficulties, for there is no such word as Negro permissible in speaking of this State. The history of the State is filled with attempts to define, sometimes at the point of the sword, oftenest in civil or criminal courts, the meaning of the…