St. Dominguan

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St. Dominguan

  1. Alternative form of Saint-Dominguan
    • 2000, William Dudley, American slavery, Greenhaven Pr, →ISBN:
      In 1803, the year that the St. Dominguan revolution culminated in the final defeat of white French colonialism, St. George Tucker republished his plan, again in Philadelphia.
    • 2008, Holger Henke, Karl-Heinz Magister, Constructing vernacular culture in the trans-Caribbean:
      The plantocracy argued that abolitionists' efforts were largely responsible for stirring the St. Dominguan slaves to revolt. The planters contended, furthermore, that the absence of a similar rebellion in Jamaica proved that []
    • 2009, Bruce R. Dain, A HIDEOUS MONSTER OF THE MIND, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 90:
      European Americans, particularly proslavery advocates, tended to lay blame for the St. Dominguan uprisings and violence, and especially the rebel victory, on the St. Dominguan affranchi caste, increasingly seen in the United States as []
    • 2016, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 276:
      Although none of the actors in Murdock's play appears to be a known refugee, St. Dominguan actors had appeared regularly on Philadelphia stages during the decade, and thus, Murdock's refugee characters appeared in close proximity to [real refugees].

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St. Dominguan (plural St. Dominguans)

  1. Alternative form of Saint-Dominguan
    • 1994, Jorge Luis Chinea Serrano, Racial Politics and Commercial Agriculture: West Indian Immigration in Nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, 1800-1850:
      The St. Dominguan arrived in Patillas in 1826, where he bought a plantation in Río Chiquito.
    • 2004, Michael B. Stack, Toussaint of Haiti, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 303:
      American President Thomas Jefferson, anticipating a possible war between the United States and France, kept the St. Dominguans well supplied. Every French soldier the black army killed would be one less the Americans would have to fight []
    • 2016, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 51:
      In urging angry St. Dominguans to accept the decree, the merchants described a revolution whose logic was universal and irrefutable. The rights restored to whites had to be matched by those belonging to other “free beings,” they explained.