Sacatra was a term used in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue to describe the descendant of one black and one griffe parent,[1] a person whose ancestry is 7⁄8ths black and 1⁄8th white.
It was one of the many terms used in the colony's racial caste system to measure one's black blood.
[2] The etymology of sacatra is uncertain; Félix Rodríguez González linked it to Spanish sacar 'take out' and atrás 'behind';[3] thus, a sacatra is a slave who is not kept in the house or at the front as a lighter-skinned servant might be.
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