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Much anger in your response. I didn't mean to make you angry. Maybe I'm being correctly understood or misunderstood. If you're mixed you're mixed. Claim both parents as you are. Uplift any heritage that is yours with pride. I only consider myself attacking notions of a prevalent problem I know. It was appalling to me when I began travelling to different countries and heard and saw this through dating, in conversations, and so on. I've dated people darker than I am (I am not light skin) claiming and saying they are white. This bothered me. I couldn't believe it and saw it as pure brainwashing. I did not think they're decision on what to call themselves came from choice, love of their heritage and people and understanding of history but of preference, shame, and denial. Here is better research against your opinion. Just to let you know it isn't always what we think we know. Whites have taught me plenty of my own history that I argued and did not know was true. Education is education. This is all I am after and all I attempt to show. It's not always 100% accurate but overrall I do base many of my facts on what I read in books and talking to people and visiting countries and reading for myself at sites what is. I guess next I'll have to take pictures and bring in census bureaus which as you might have alluded to were very shaky. At least I spent time to try and scientifically, philosophically, and scholastically prove my point. I could come from opinion and using my eyes like you with No facts, but hey here's research.
I didn't want to say this because I know how angry some Dominicans get when you reveal the relation with Haiti, but here it is. According to University of Kentucky: On the other hand, the example of Saint Domingue shows that it took special conditions for a slave revolt to succeed in the New World. Slaves outnumbered whites in Saint Domingue by more than 10 to 1. Even so, their superior military technology enabled the whites to control the colony until the French Revolution divided the whites among themselves and turned the mixed-race population against them. Toussaint?s success also depended heavily on his ability to play the different white powers against each other. At crucial moments in his career, he benefited from support from the Spanish, the British, and the Americans. Understanding the conditions that allowed the Haitian Revolution to succeed helps us understand what factors allowed the white slaveowners of the American South to keep power for so long.
MY LAST Research for this website On THIS TOPIC: (I won't reply to any more e-mails.)
A French Legislator?s Explanation of the Slave Revolt (1797)
1. ?In the midst of the general exaltation of passions caused by the Revolution, when the word liberty was in everyone?s mouths, even those of the white colonists who used it to claim tyrannical power and political independence for themselves, when the symbols of freedom were displayed everywhere, it would have been odd indeed if the blacks alone had been deaf to the sound of a word that promised them a condition so different from the one they were suffering under. They saw the whites fighting among themselves and alienating the mulattoes. They outnumbered the whites ten to one. One would have to have a very poor understanding of human nature to think that, in such a situation, the blacks needed any inspiration other than this impulse that is irresistible for all living creatures?? (Garran-Coulon, Rapport sur les Troubles de Saint-Domingue, 2:194)
Black slaves heavily outnumbered both the whites and the free coloreds, however: there were 465,000 of them in Saint Domingue by 1789. About half of the slaves had been born in Africa. Slaves were imported from many regions in West Africa. They brought some traditions and beliefs with them, but they had to adapt to a very different environment in the Caribbean.
THE HEART of my opinion which I think is factual
The fact is there are dominant and recessive genes as it pertains to geneaology. Fact is there are mix people and that is called the world. Fact is the definition of races are largely a human construct with only a little science to support it. Fact is in America there was a time when Blacks or people of color or coloreds or African Americans/whatever used to try and claim everything but being black. All that was said was I am Cherokee mixed with Italian, mixed with a little Asian and only a little bit of Black. Noone wanted to claim black and this became a trend. A movement rose up and silenced all this to unite blacks and people of color and said stop denying what you appear to be "a person of color." Thus, people of color in America whose Ancestry included African largely began to say and accept what once they denied and thought of as a negative term "Black," as a sense of unity and identity. Thus, no more mentioning of a lineage that to many degrees was impossible to trace and therefore came to the acceptance that all colored people were considered and treated as black by White oppressors. Therefore Blacks no longer saw any difference in the words colored or Black or persons of color because of this. Blacks or persons of color did continue to accept because of oppression that Whites obviously were different, but b/c of Black's mixed heritage they did see people of other mixed heritages that included African as black or people of color.
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Bartolome de Las Casas claimed that there were 300,000 Taino Arawaks in Hispaniola when the? Spaniards arrived in 1492. In the first official count in 1508 there were 60,000. In 1512 the number had declined to 20,000, and in 1548 only 500. According to Francis Drake, there were no Indians on the island in 1586 when he attacked it
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The small European farmers lost their land, indentured servitude was phased out and Africans were brought from that continent, enslaved and put to work on the plantations. The Caribbean received about almost half of the 12 million enslaved Africans brought to the Americas. As a contrast the British North America (the United States after 1776) received six percent. Those were the times when "king sugar" ruled the world. The white sugar barons had money and power and they used both to buy influence in Europe and in America.
How many Dominicans are mixed with Indian??????
In plotting on a graph the decline of Hispaniola's native population there appears a curious bulge, around the year 1510, when the diminishing numbers seemed to stabilize and even grow a bit. Then the inexorable downward spiral toward extinction continues. What that little blip on the demographic record indicates is not, however, a moment of respite for the island's people, nor a contradiction to the overall pattern of Hispaniola's population free-fall following Columbus's arrival. Rather, it is a shadowy and passing footnote to the holocaust the Spanish at the same time were bringing to the rest of the Caribbean, for that fleeting instant of population stabilization was caused by the importation of tens of thousands of slaves from surrounding islands in a fruitless attempt by the Spanish to replace the dying natives of Hispaniola.
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By 1496, we already have noted, the population of Hispaniola had fallen from eight million to between four and five million. By 1508 it was down to less than a hundred thousand. By 1518 it numbered less than twenty thousand. And by 1535, say the leading scholars on this grim topic, "for all practical purposes, the native population was extinct."
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Many of the Peninsula-born Spaniards were either killed or expelled
from Latin America during the two decades following 1810, but Spanish
emigrants began to enter the region shortly thereafter; and between
1850 and 1900 they arrived in as large numbers as had migrated to
the Spanish American colonies during the whole of the Colonial period.
The total exceeded 2,000,000 by the end of the century, the major
recipients being Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Cuba.
