Creole Common Routes; St.Domingue (Haiti) – Louisiana Part 1
From the pots of red beans and rice bubbling in French Quarter restaurants to the amulet bags for sale in neighborhood botanicas, Haitian influence is seen, heard and tasted across this city. French colonists from Saint-Domingue — later renamed Haiti — had traveled to New Orleans since the early 1700s. That connection flourished in 1809 and 1810, when 10,000 refugees arrived in New Orleans from Saint-Domingue. Those numbers were later strengthen with another migration wave of 15,000 in the 1820s. The refugees were a combination of French colonists, their slaves and free people of color who had fled the slave uprisings.The refugees doubled the city’s population and infused New Orleans with Franco-Caribbean traditions, including theater companies, elaborate dances and black political activists. Also, as Saint-Domingue’s lucrative sugarcane fields burned during the revolution there, New Orleans’ sugar industry soared. A lot of the things about New Orleans we view as unique came from those Haitian refugees. New Orleans is the most Haitian city in America, much more than Miami or New York. Essentially all of the surviving whites (along with some of the gens de couleur) became refugees. Approximately 10,000 French refugees came to the Gulf Coast larger than the population of New Orleans and Mobile at the time (8,000 and 810 respectively). These Saint-Dominguens made a significant contribution to the Gulf Coasts creole culture. Saint-Dominguens included John James Audubon, Louis Moreau Gottschalks family, and (likely) Marie Laveau and Jean Laffitte. Black refugees to Louisiana brought with them elements of African and Haitian culture in the form of voodoo/hoodoo practices, shotgun house architecture, and the language, oral traditions, and dance steps of Mardi Gras Indian rites.
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@chsn09 Are you …
@chsn09 Are you Spanish, Cuban or Creole? If you are Cuban you should get your DNA tested. Many Cubans also have Asian ancestry as well! If you are Cuban do you know why everyone in America thinks a Habanero is a pepper? Even wikipedia thinks its a pepper. Im an Arenal by the way.
@chsn09 I consider …
@chsn09 I consider myself mixed. I was raised to say Cuban Mixed. or Spanish Dukes Mixture. I was not raised to say “Louisiana Creole” so I consider myself only of Louisiana and Mobile Creole descent. My mothers side doesnt consider themselves creole. They just call it “from Louisiana”. or Bayou People. Another thing, the old ones that looked white usually say that they are either “french” or “spanish”. some of the darker ones like myself would call themselves black indians.
@blakmajesty Are …
@blakmajesty Are you Cuban or Louisiana Creole or Haitian etc?
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@blakmajesty Yes very true! Haitian French Creole is the second most spoken language in the Republic of Cuba! Not only even that ppl and things coming from Haiti have been part of the island of Cuba since the 1500s and 1600s! There were many braceros workers that came to Cuba and many of them were from Haiti and many still migrate to Cuba!
During the Haitian Revolution and French Revolutions ppl from Haiti of ALL races and mixtures fled for Cuba and boosted the Cuban population and economy! -_-
@chsn09 Yes, …
@chsn09 Yes, Haitian culture is definitely a part of Cuban culture. Haitian Creole is the second most spoken language in Cuba. A large number of Haitians migrated to Cuba by the thousands.
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@Angrygumballl LOL haha! Yes don’t forget them because they contributed to the cultural fabric and essence as well! Although interestingly enough many Haitians CONTRIBUTED to the cultures of Cuba and DR and even Haiti significantly! I’d say that many if not most Puerto Ricans and Dominicans and Cubans have a connection historically and culturally and even ancestrally to HAITI through migrations and influence!
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