Marabou (French: marabout) is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term, which comes originally from the African Marabouts, describes the offspring of a Haitian person of mixed race: European, African, Taíno and South Asian.
 Marabou Haitian man | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 590,000+[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Haiti, United States, Canada, France[2] | |
| Languages | |
| French, Haitian Creole, French-based creole languages | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholic, but also Anglican, Protestant, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist Church and Jehovah's Witness | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Afro-Caribbeans, Dougla, Affranchi |
The Marabou label dates to the colonial period of Haiti's history, meaning the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe person.[3][4] However, Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, in his three-volume work on the colony,[5] describes Marabous as the product of the union of an African/European and a East Asian. Many events have shaped the lives of the Marabou, a people of mixed Haitian, East Asian, and other ancestries.
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- ^ https://www.jaitoutcompris.com/animaux/le-marabout-213.php
- ^ "Home". Embassy of Haiti. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ John Stephen Farmer (1889). Americanisms--old & New. p. 377.
Mulatto. — A name given to the offspring of a white and a negro. The word is Spanish, mulato from mulo a mule or, as in ... meamelouc; Griffe | black, negro and mulatto; Marabou, § black, mulatto and griffe; Sacatra, g black, griffe and negro.
- ^ Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (in Spanish). Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana. 1925. p. 533.
De este modo, el hijo de mulato y negra es un griffe, y el de griffe y negro unmarabou ó marabout y así sucesivamente.
- ^ Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry. Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de lisle Saint-Domingue. 3 vols.(Philadelphia, 1797).
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