Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry

As such, he spent time traveling in the Caribbean and returning to France to write and lobby until his involvement with the French Revolution led to the issuing of a warrant for his arrest.

It hierarchizes a possible one hundred and twenty-eight possible combinations of black-white miscegenation into nine categories (the sacatra, the griffe, the marabout, the mulâtre, the quarteron, the métis, the mamelouk, the quarteronné, and the sang-melé).

[9] A well-educated slave owner, he rejected the principle of the Natural Rights of Man in order to defend legal slavery and segregation on the basis of race.

[2] In his roles in the French parliament and on the colonial Governing Boards, he sought to maintain an economic system based on slave labor.

A couple years later, in 1802 he became administrator of Parma, Piacenza, and Gustalla, but later on his position was taken away by Napoleon because of his forgiving response towards a criminal conspiracy among the army.

Moreau had to flee back to Paris in 1798, escaping the Alien Bill imposed by the American president at the time, John Adams.