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Haitian Social Structure
 
Society in Saint-Domingue

Haitian Social Groups

Social Group Description
Les Grand B/ancs (The Big Whites)
Merchants and landowners
 
Held the most power
Les Petit Blancs (The Little Whites) Plantation overseers and crafts people
Affranchis
Free people of color, people of mixed African and European heritage
 
Allowed to own land but not allowed to participate in the government or work in certain professions (doctors, lawyers)
Native Inhabitants, Maroons & Enslaved Africans
Plantation workers, there were about half a million of them
 
No rights or freedoms
 
A Affranchis
B Les Grand Blancs
C Enslaved Africans

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