Its back to the Haitian Revolution once again for my next entry into the Challenge. Here we have two Companies of Morenos Infantry, Volunteers of Santo Domingo.
"Entry into the
endowment companies was prohibited to those who were not of Spanish
descent and of white race, except for the Tambores who had to be people of
colour. Although this rule prevailed for these regular troops, the recruit was
very different in the militias, where it was allowed, rather forced, the entry
of men of other races different from the white, maintaining the
differentiation of the units separately according to the skin colour of the men
who would have to register in her, without mixing them with each other, or at
least between whites and those of other racial origins. Therefore, the same
division that so markedly characterized colonial society was maintained in fact
when raising and regulating the militias and classifying them into units of
Whites, Browns, and Dark Haired. Another different question will be the
participation of the Indians in the militias, an issue that is fairly regulated
and taken care of by the military authorities in areas with or with a large
population of said origin, an issue that was not the case in Santo Domingo."
