Total population | |
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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 |
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.
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.
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.
De este modo, el hijo de mulato y negra es un griffe, y el de griffe y negro unmarabou ó marabout y así sucesivamente.