284 OUBA AND PORTO RICO 



Undoubtedly the inhabitants of Haiti were reduced nearly 

 one half by the terrible wars of the revolution. During 

 the struggle all of fche whites were either driven out of the 

 country or killed, and some slaves were exported to Cuba 

 and the United States. The prolific negro race has re- 

 couped its losses, however, and the population is rapidly 

 increasing. St. John concludes, after investigating all 

 possible sources of information, that the population has 

 probably doubled since 1825, notwithstanding the careless- 

 ness of the negro mothers. 



The colored people generally reside in the towns, and are 

 a vanishing class. A marked line is drawn against them 

 by the blacks, owing to historic alinement of these two 

 classes. In past political conflicts the mulattos have been 

 usually defeated, and most of them have since segregated 

 in the eastern or San Domingo end of the island. The 

 black hates the mulatto, the mulatto despises the black, 

 and the whites have a contend for both. As a race, the 

 mulattos who remain have been described as hating their 

 fathers and despising their mothers. In personal appear- 

 ance the Haitian mulattos are what might be expected 

 from a mixture of a plain race of Europeans with the 

 homeliest of Africans. They are quite different in type 

 from the Spanish mulattos of Cuba, San Domingo, and 

 Porto Rico, or the beautiful mulattos of the French 

 islands. The women are rarely good-looking and never 

 beautiful ; as they approach the white type they have long, 

 coarse hair, pretty teeth, small hands, and delicate forms, 

 but their voices, noses, skins, and lower jaws are defective. 

 A pretty girl is the exception. 



At the beginning of the revolution the half-breeds con- 

 stituted less than one tenth of the whole population, and 

 the wars all tended to increase the disparity in favor of 

 the blacks, who formed the vast majority. Hence, since the 

 white element has almost been eliminated, the crossing 

 necessarily resulted in the gradual exclusion of the half- 

 breed type by the full-blooded negro. 



