Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… preferred gambling dens, bars and dance halls, places where they might encounter women of colour and perhaps strike up sexual relations (Rogers and King 377). Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 'Costumes de différents pays. Nègre et négresse … status of the wealthy Creoles of colour. The ideology of white superiority also provided a rationale for discouraging sexual relations between white men and women of colour by demonising the latter as inferior, impure and dangerous to the …
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