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In 1756, when Thomas Ploy married Marie Rose Casamajor in Saint-Domingue’s Aquin parish, he might have been another ambitious French colonist allying with an old colonial family. The bride’s grandfather had been a royal notary in the southern peninsula almost since the time it opened to settlers. For years her father Pierre Casamajor had managed the public indigo warehouse at Aquin’s wharf. By the time of the marriage Casamajor was an indigo planter wealthy enough to endow his daughter with 18,800 livres worth of property, including six silver place settings and six slaves, one of them a valet.1
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Garrigus, J.D. (2006). Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s. In: Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue. The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403984432_3
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