Tag: black slave ownership

• Affranchi

  “Affranchi is a former French legal term denoting a freedman or emancipated slave. It is used in English to describe the class of freedmen in Saint-Domingue and other slave-holding French territories, who held legal rights intermediate between those of free whites and enslaved Africans. In Saint-Domingue, roughly half of the affranchis were gens de couleur […]

  Adrienne Morris

  November 7, 2016

  Art, Uncategorized, United States History

  19th century, affranchi, black slave ownership, Fashion, french colonies, haiti, slave revolt, slavery