Sacatra was a term used in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue to describe the descendant of one black and one griffe parent, [1] a person whose ancestry is 7 ⁄ 8 ths black and 1 ⁄ 8 th white. It was one of the many terms used in the colony's racial caste system to measure one's black blood.

Sacatra, the name given in Louisiana to the offspring of a griffe and a negress. The quarteron could be produced by the white and the marabou in the proportion of 88 to 40, or by the white and the sacatra, in the proportion of 72 to 56 and so on all through the 128 varieties.

The term sacatra was used to refer to one who was seven-eighths black or African and one-eighth white or European (i.e. an individual with one black and one griffe parent, or one white great-grandparent).

The term sacatra was used to refer to one seven-eighths Black or African and one-eighth white or European (i.e., an individual with one Black and one griffe parent or one white great-grandparent). The term mustefino refers to a person with one-sixteenth African ancestry.

Sacatra was a term used in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue to describe one who was the descendant of one black and one griffe parent. The term is also used to describe one who is 7/8ths black and 1/8th white. It was one of the many terms used in the colony's racial caste system to measure ones black blood. How to pronounce sacatra?

2024年11月29日 · sacatra (plural sacatras) A person having one black and one griffe parent; a person whose ancestry is seven-eighths black and one-eighth white.

2024年9月18日 · Définitions de « sacatra » Sacatra - Nom commun. Personne métisse dont la peau est très foncée, proche de celle d'un Noir. Je crois avoir dit que Biassou était sacatra. — Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal

There are many words in America’s history and the history of the Americas that have been used to identify, disguise, categorize, control, or to segregate People of Color. Here are some of those words. Probably, originally White Europeans with pure black features (hair). This term has also been applied to persons with mixed racial heritage.

sacatra : Nom donné à l'homme de couleur qui se rapproche le plus du ... Définition dans le Littré, dictionnaire de la langue française. Texte intégral, sans publicité ni brimborions.

top, to the “griffe,” “sacatra,” and other darker-skinned Mulattoes closest to black at the bottom of the color pyramid (Williams 1971, pp. 187–188). In the early 2000s, the middle classes benefit from the rather incomplete system of democracy that Caribbean states inherited