Marabou (ethnicity)
Term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 East Asian or South Asian.
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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 |
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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.