Marabou (ethnicity)

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Marabou
Marabou.jpg
Marabou Haitian man
Total population
10,000+
Regions with significant populations
Haiti, United States, Canada, France[1]
Languages
French, Haitian Creole, French-based creole languages
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholic, but also Anglican, Protestant, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist Church and Jehovah's Witness
Related ethnic groups
Afro-Caribbeans, Dougla, Affranchi

Marabou (French: marabout) is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term, which comes originally from the African Marabouts, describes the offspring of a Haitian person of mixed race: European, African, Taíno and South Asian.

The Marabou label dates to the colonial period of Haiti’s history, meaning the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe person.[2][3] However, Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, in his three-volume work on the colony,[4] describes Marabous as the product of the union of a black and a quadroon; he says nothing concerning East Indians.

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References[]

  1. ^ http://www.haiti.org
  2. ^ John Stephen Farmer (1889). Americanisms--old & New. p. 377. Mulatto. — A name given to the offspring of a white and a negro. The word is Spanish, mulato from mulo a mule or, as in ... meamelouc; Griffe | black, negro and mulatto; Marabou, § black, mulatto and griffe; Sacatra, g black, griffe and negro.
  3. ^ Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (in Spanish). Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana. 1925. p. 533. De este modo, el hijo de mulato y negra es un griffe, y el de griffe y negro unmarabou ó marabout y así sucesivamente.
  4. ^ Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry. Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de lisle Saint-Domingue. 3 vols.(Philadelphia, 1797).


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