Sacatra : Have heard of this term?

[Guanimaa]

Sacatra ? Its like nobody wanted to call themselves Black during this period. Like most British Islands had White, Black Mulatto/Mixed or Quadroon but some of the terms in Latin America It would just be new world black in a forum like this.

This is a French Term I believe

Sacatra = Griffe + Black


https://www.wordnik.com/words/sacatra

A measuring system which moves through black to white in nine degrees, it was developed by a French colonialist living in Haiti during the slave plantation period. Moreau de St. Mery created a surreal taxonomy of race which classified the skin colour of the indigenous population, where white, or ‘Blanche’ was inevitably socially superior to black, or ‘Noir’. There are nine degrees of shading in all, from pure black to 1/8 white, and 7/8 black and so on through ‘Sacatra’, ‘Griffe’, ‘Marabou’, ‘Mulâtre’, - See more at: http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2012/0....cy10jGSw.dpuf

[Havomrak]

So it should be just black IMO.

[Guanimaa]

No wonder why the Haitian people revolted.