Ethnic groups in Central America Ethnic groups in Central America French colonial Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) had three social classes devised to maintain and inflict slavery: French planters, affranchi landholders, and African slaves. The affranchi were light-skinned ( mulattoes) free persons of color, the offspring of white French Slavers and African women who had been forced to breed children for them, largely for the purpose of being overseers on slave plantations, or domestic servants. As such, the affranchi had legal and social advantages over the slave classes. They were able to own land and attend some French colonial entertainments. However, they could not hold administrative posts or work as doctors or lawyers. They were also forbidden to wear the style of clothes favored by the wealthy white colonists. In spite of the disadvantages, many affranchi identified themselves culturally with France rather than with the enslaved population. ...more on Wikipedia about "Affranchi"
An Afro-Latin American is a person from Latin America who has black ancestry. Concepts of "Black", negro or "African" are vastly different in Latin America than how they are applied within the English-speaking nations of America, since the one-drop theory was never used. Latinos believe the term "Afro-Latino" is not necessary as the term "Latino" itself ecompasses and includes a melée of various ethnic heritages that includes Indigenous, African and European bloodlines. Many in Latin America feel that certain allegedly politically-correct citizens of the United States lack a thorough understanding of what it actually means to be a Latino in America. They feel that many U.S. persons are trying to impose their views on how to define Latino culture by viewing and comparing everyone's history through their own cultural and racial experiences in the United States and not through the cultural and ethnic lens of Latino America itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afro-Latin American"
Alaguilac.- A Nahuan tribe located on the Río Motagua in the eastern part of Guatemala. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alaguilac"
The Garifuna or Garífuna are an ethnic group in the Caribbean area, descended from a mix of Amerindian and African people. They are also sometimes known as Garifune or Black Caribs. There are estimated to be about 200,000 of them in Central America and the United States. Properly, the term "Garifuna" refers to the individual and the language, while Garinagu is the (plural or collective) term for the people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Garifuna"
Before the Revolution broke out in Haiti, in 1789 there were (at least) four distinct “types” of people living in Saint-Domingue: the whites, the black slaves, the maroons, and the free people of color- or gens de couleur libres. There were approximately 25,000 gens de couleur in 1789. Roughly half of them were born of Frenchmen and slave women. There were similar populations in Martinique and Guadeloupe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gens de couleur"
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