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A Work of Combat: Mulatto Historians and the Haitian Past, 1847-1867

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Nicholls
David Nicholls*
Affiliation:
Exeter College, Oxford, England
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One of the striking facts about the social and political history of Haiti from independence in 1804 to the present is the deep gulf separating the largely mulatto elite groups from the predominantly black masses. The war of the South in 1799 between Toussaint and Rigaud, and the conflicts between Christophe and Pétion, while not primarily caused by color factors, were reinforced by suspicions and hostilities between black and mulatto, with each group accusing the other of prejudice and discrimination. Politics in the rest of the nineteenth century can generally be seen as a tussle between a mulatto elite centered in the capital and in the cities of the South, on the one hand, and a small black elite often in alliance with army leaders and peasant irregulars, on the other. In the years following 1867 these groups formalized themselves into a largely mulatto Liberal Party, and a preponderantly black National Party.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 15 - 38
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Copyright © University of Miami 1974

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