Dominguan

Dominguan

English

Etymology

Domingue (Saint-Domingue) +‎ -an

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mɪŋ.ən/

Adjective

Dominguan (comparative more Dominguan, superlative most Dominguan)

1. (historical) Of or pertaining to Saint-Domingue or its people (inhabitants).
   • 1982, David Patrick Geggus, Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798:

     There was no Dominguan currency per se and the livre tournois was officially fixed at 50 per cent above par to attract coinage into the colony.

   • 2000, Douglas R. Egerton, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, UNC Press Books (→ISBN), page 47:

     […] that Jefferson had proclaimed and Dunmore had delivered, the Dominguan slaves reminded their Virginia brethren that the struggle to fulfill the promise of 1776 was far from over. With Dominguan planters fleeing in all directions, news of  […]

   • 2013, Emily Clark, The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, UNC Press Books (→ISBN), page 91:

     […] was one of twenty-six men of Dominguan descent to marry into a New Orleans family. When he wed Maria Martina Populus in 1815, he joined one of the most prominent and oldest of the city's free black families. Perhaps his service in the battle won him acceptance ...

   • 2014, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance, University of Georgia Press (→ISBN), page 73:

     The summer of 1793 also witnessed the arrival of the first wave of Dominguan immigrants to Philadelphia. The Saint-Dominguan Revolution was in its second year, and on 20 June, the fighting reached the colonial capital at Cap Français.

Synonyms

• Saint-Dominguan (Saint Dominguan, St. Dominguan), Dominguois, Saint-Dominguois

Noun

Dominguan (plural Dominguans)

1. (historical) A native or inhabitant of Saint-Domingue.
   • 2011, Thomas Ruys Smith, Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 29:

     The mass arrival of Saint-Dominguan slaves, with their own religious practices, clearly had a profound effect on its development. As Sublette asserts, “[t]he newly arrived Domingans' vodou that came en masse from eastern Cuba had to coexist ..."

   • 2014, Ronald Angelo Johnson, Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance, University of Georgia Press (→ISBN), page 150:

     He appreciated that thoughts of revenge for past slavery and continued socia subordination to white Dominguans have “persuaded the blacks to want to cut the throats of the whites.” Ill-intentioned white Dominguans compounded the ...