Racism in the French colony of Saint Domingo was alive and thriving. The accounts from whites living in Saint Domingo during its colonial peak are extremely racist. Many whites saw the blacks living in Saint Domingo as inhumane and savage. These aspects, contributed to the harsh treatment inflicted on the enslaved and free blacks in Saint Domingo. A British coffee planter living Saint Domingo in 1798, description of the blacks definitely shows the bigoted mindset of whites in the colony.
The coffee planter gives the following account about blacks in the colony of Saint Domingo,“thus, generally speaking, the negroe is not perhaps the worst species of the human race. He is an animal rational in a middle degree; tolerably good, because he is
The coffee planter gives the following account about blacks in the colony of Saint Domingo,“thus, generally speaking, the negroe is not perhaps the worst species of the human race. He is an animal rational in a middle degree; tolerably good, because he is