Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… people of colour could manage to attain wealth and status. They even appeared as white in many legal documents, despite regulations requiring race to be indicated dating back to the Code Noir of 1685. Their success and influence were … of free people of colour to abandon their European surnames and replace them with African ones. The sumptuary regulations of 1779 forbade free people of colour ‘from affecting in their clothing, hairstyles, apparel or adornment, in …
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