Talk:Gens de couleur

NPOV?
Is this NPOV? David.Monniaux 12:32, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * It could certainly be improved. This is my academic speciality, which is why I was surprised that one of my undergraduate students chose to write this entry, based loosely on a lecture I delivered several months ago. I would like to see changes in the tone of the description, choice of words, etc.. But fundamentally the facts stand. My additions to "History of Haiti", and "Free people of color" could also be improved but I think give a less judgmental perspective.
 * Ultimately Wikipedia needs an entire entry [or several] devoted to the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, its connections to events in France, the USA, and the Caribbean colonies of France, England, and Spain. This is a long-term goal of mine -- though I may ask students to begin the work, and then join the Wiki community myself to improve their text. John Garrigus
 * If you're essentially the author of the piece, can you source the claim that affranchis and gens de couleur were actually distinct and that the latter was never used to describe freed slaves? It seems to contradict numerous other articles & other sentences within this one. -LlywelynII (talk) 20:09, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. I see what it was trying to say now. I'll patch up the article to fix the problem. -LlywelynII (talk) 20:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Chevalier de St.-Georges not from Saint-Domingue
Just a quibble, but I think he was from Guadelupe or Martinique.

Shout-out
I appreciate John Garrigus' contribution to this topic. Certainly there is plenty more to say. And there should be a ref to John's book _Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue_ (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006) and my _Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint-Domingue_ (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001). Stewart King

Question overlap
Not clear why there are articles on Free people of color, which is supposed to address the mixed-race class in Saint-Domingue and other islands, and this one. It appears they should be merged, since they are both dealing with the societies of French colonies. Looks like a lot of overlap and confusion among these articles: also Creoles of color. Whatever historic distinctions once existed are getting blurred in some of these attempts to be "global." Also, all these articles need to have inline citations to reliable sources. At this point, they are anecdotal.Parkwells (talk) 15:33, 15 November 2013 (UTC)