22506: Stephenson: Re: 22491: JHudicourt: On color in Corbett's list of heads of state -- Corbett adds (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: PatrickStephenson <patrickstephenson@videotron.ca>

I do agree with Hudicourt, the color issue is a "Non-issue" periodically
used in haitian history by misguided leaders and foreigners to fool and
mislead the illiterate Haitian people.
Skin color has never totally been the Single Class Attribute in Haiti. By
the way, many mulatto have very dark skin but straight hair and european
features (See Moreau de St-Mery).

The real issue had always and will always be of "Class, Money and Power".
For exemple Dessalines or Toussaint were prominent black officers of the
french colonial army, and later that owned large colonial plantations, where
hundreds of formers slaves without land worked and lived (after the
abolition of slavery by the French revolution in 1789).

Thanks to Hudicourt for Straightening the Facts.

P.SS