Creole Text

Dublin Core

Title

Creole

Relation

https://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/1082/

Identifier

1082

Text Item Type Metadata

Text

A person born in a European colony of either European or African parentage. The term was used to distinguish those born in the colonies from both aboriginal peoples and those who came directly from Europe or Africa. The word was also used to refer to languages developed in the New World out of a mixture of European and African roots.

Citation

“Creole,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/1082.