White Haitians

White Haitians (French: Blancs haïtiens, [blɑ̃ (s)aisjɛ̃]; Haitian Creole: blan ayisyen),[1] are Haitians of predominant or full European.[2] There were approximately 20,000 whites around the Haitian Revolution, mainly French, in Saint-Domingue. They were divided into two main groups: The Planters and Petit Blancs.[3] The first Europeans to settle in Haiti were the Spanish.[4] The Spanish enslaved the indigenous Haitians to work on sugar plantations and in gold mines. European diseases such as measles and smallpox killed all but a few thousand of the indigenous Haitians. Many other indigenous Haitians died from overwork and harsh treatment in the mines from slavery.[5] Many Europeans who settled in Haiti were killed or fled during the Haitian Revolution.

  1. ^ Warner, R. Stephen; Wittner, Judith G. (1998). Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration. Temple University. p. 155. ISBN 1566396131. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  2. ^ Katz, Jonathan M. (2013). The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. Macmillan. p. 56. ISBN 9780230341876. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. ^ "The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803".
  4. ^ Cooks, Carlos A. (21 October 1992). Carlos Cooks and Black Nationalism from Garvey to Malcolm. The Majority Press. p. 94. ISBN 9780912469287.
  5. ^ Graves, Kerry A. (21 October 2023). Haiti. Capstone. p. 22. ISBN 9780736810784.