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'''Petits blancs''' - (literally: ''little whites'').  The ''petits blancs'' were the poor, white underclass of [[Saint-Domingue]], including artisans and laborers. The petit blancs had an intense hatred for the usually much wealthier group of the [[mulatto]] [[affranchis]], whith whom they had to compete economically.

See [[Blancs]] for further details.

==See also==
*[[Grands Blancs]] - The European colonial upper class.
*[[History of the Disasters in Saint-Domingue]] - Text by a French man, describing the reaction of the petits blancs to the beginning of the Haitian Revolution; the account of the Haitian Revolution, describes events around [[Le Cap]] in [[1791]].

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