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Originally Posted by eschaton
Well yeah, but my point is that France just tended to be less interested in sending settlers to its colonies (and those that came often didn't being along wives) meaning the tier below the planters had to be comprised of the mixed-race children of the planters, rather than some farmers imported from Normandy or something.
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Actually there were many White people in St Domingue (Haiti). In fact St Domingue attracted more French settlers than Canada over the course of its history. But all of them were either killed or forced to flee during the Haitian Revolution, with many relocating to Louisiana with their slaves, which is why the White past of Haiti is now totally forgotten.
And yet even in this society where there were many White people, the class of free colored man developed. So it has to be for other reasons.
Besides, I don't see exactly what you're referring to when you say some lower class White people were needed. Needed for what? Black slaves did all the manual jobs, plus served as house servants. White people were either masters of slaves and owning plantations, or were civil servants, clerks, priests, merchants. I can't see why a White underclass would be needed here.
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