Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1920 — What is a Creole? [ARTICLE]

What is a Creole?

Originally the word was used to denote persons born In the West todies of Spanish parents to .dlstlngutoh them from Immigrants direct from Spain, aboriginals, negroes or mulattos. It is now used fw the descendants of noa-aboriginal races born sad settled in the West todies, to various parts of the American mainland and In Mauritius, Reunion or some other places colonised by Spain, Portugal, France or (to the case of the West todies) by England. The use of toe word by some writers as necessarily implying a person of mixed blood is entirely erroneous, to Itself “creole’’ has no distinction of color : a-creola may be s person of European, negro or mixed extraction, or even s horse. Frwich Canadians are never Creoles. —Brooklyn Eagle.