Sacatra

{{short description|Person who was the descendant of one black and one griffe parent}}

Sacatra was a term used in the French Colony of Saint-Domingue to describe the descendant of one black and one griffe parent,{{Cite web|url=https://www.wordnik.com/words/sacatra|title=Sacatra|website=Wordnik}} a person whose ancestry is {{Fraction|7|8}}ths black and {{Fraction|1|8}}th white. It was one of the many terms used in the colony's racial caste system to measure one's black blood.{{Cite web|url=https://msu.edu/~williss2/carpentier/part2/quadroons.html|title=The Kingdom of This World|website=msu.edu|access-date=2017-03-28}}

The etymology of sacatra is uncertain; Félix Rodríguez González linked it to Spanish sacar {{gloss|take out}} and atrás {{gloss|behind}};{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XtdDwAAQBAJ&q=%22sacatra%22+word+origin&pg=PA151|title=Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal|first=Félix Rodríguez|last=Gonzáles|date=26 June 2017|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=9783110890617|via=Google Books}} thus, a sacatra is a slave who is not kept in the house or at the front as a lighter-skinned servant might be.