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Affranchi logo #10101) Haitian dance
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Affranchi

Affranchi logo #21000 Affranchi is a former French legal term denoting a freedman or emancipated slave, but was a term used to refer pejoratively to mulattoes. It is used in English to describe the class of freedmen in Saint-Domingue and other slave-holding French territories, who held legal rights intermediate between those of free whites and enslaved Africans. In Sai...
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Affranchi

Affranchi logo #21000[dance] Affranchi is a traditional cultural dance that originated in Saint-Domingue, the modern day Haiti; the name taken from a word that as used to describe people that were descendants of a European and an African slave. ==History== Europeans in Saint-Domingue delighted in the affranchi entertainment. Both Europeans and Affranchis perfor...
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affranchi logo #21003(from the article `Haiti`) ...population of 556,000, including roughly 500,000 African slaves—a hundredfold increase over the previous century—32,000 European colonists, and ...
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