Sacatra

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 7⁄8ths black and 1⁄8th white. It was one of the many terms used in the colony's racial caste system to measure one's black blood.^[2]

The etymology of sacatra is uncertain; Félix Rodríguez González linked it to the Spanish sacar ("take out") and atrás ("behind");^[3] thus, a sacatra is a slave who is not kept in the house or at the front as a lighter-skinned servant might be.

^ "Sacatra". Wordnik.
^ "The Kingdom of This World". msu.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
^ Gonzáles, Félix Rodríguez (26 June 2017). Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110890617 – via Google Books.

[1] "Sacatra". Wordnik.

[2] "The Kingdom of This World". msu.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.

[3] Gonzáles, Félix Rodríguez (26 June 2017). Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110890617 – via Google Books.

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