{"id":34224,"date":"2013-10-10T02:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34224"},"modified":"2017-04-06T01:41:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:41:26","slug":"description-topographique-physique-civile-politique-et-historique-de-la-partie-franc%cc%a6aise-de-lisle-saint-domingue-avec-des-observations-ge%cc%81ne%cc%81rales-sur-la-population-sur-le-carac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34224","title":{"rendered":"Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie fran\u00e7aise de l’isle Saint-Domingue: avec des observations g\u00e9ne\u0301rales sur la population, sur le caracte\u0300re & les moeurs de ses divers habitans, sur son climat, sa culture, ses productions, son administration (Topographic description, physical, civil, and political history of the French part of the island Santo Domingo: with general observations on the population, on the character and manners of its various inhabitants, its climate, its culture, production, administration)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie fran\u00e7aise de l’isle Saint-Domingue: avec des observations ge\u0301ne\u0301rales sur la population, sur le caracte\u0300re & les moeurs de ses divers habitans, sur son climat, sa culture, ses productions, son administration\u00a0 (Topographic description, physical, civil, and political history of the French part of the island Santo Domingo: with general observations on the population, on the character and manners of its various inhabitants, its climate, its culture, production, administration.)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chez l’auteu
\n1797-1798
\n2 volumes : 2 ill., maps (engravings) ; 26 cm. (4to)
\n856 pages<\/p>\n

M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-M\u00e9ry<\/a> (M\u00e9d\u00e9ric Louis \u00c9lie Moreau de Saint-M\u00e9ry)<\/strong> (1750-1819)<\/p>\n

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From The John Carter Brown Library<\/a>: The mixing of races in Saint Domingue<\/a> occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony\u2019s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-M\u00e9ry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major resource for contemporary scholars. In volume one of his Description, Moreau counted and categorized 11 racial combinations in the colony<\/strong>. He argued that ancestry should be traced back seven generations and hence ultimately comprised 128 combinations. The \u201cscience\u201d of skin color received one of its earliest formulations in this work, completed in 1789. Moreau was himself the father of a mixed-race child by his mulatto<\/a> mistress.<\/p>\n

Read the entire book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mixing of races in Saint Domingue occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony\u2019s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-M\u00e9ry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major resource for contemporary scholars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,1467,8,17,26],"tags":[16084,16085,4082,1731],"class_list":["post-34224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","tag-chez-lauteu","tag-m-l-e-moreau-de-saint-mery","tag-mederic-louis-elie-moreau-de-saint-mery","tag-saint-domingue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53263,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions\/53263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}