Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue

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By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French Caribbean colony offered a high degree of social, economic, and physical mobility to free people of color. Covering the period 1776-1791, this study offers the most comprehensive portrait to date of Saint Domingues free black elites on the eve of the colony's transformation into the republic of Haiti.