| Group: | Marabou |
| Population: | 590,000+[1] |
| Popplace: | Haiti, United States, Canada, France[2] |
| Langs: | French, Haitian Creole, French-based creole languages |
| Rels: | Predominantly Roman Catholic, but also Anglican, Protestant, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist Church and Jehovah's Witness |
| Related: | Afro-Caribbeans, Dougla, Affranchi |
Marabou (French: marabout) is a term of Haitian origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term, which comes originally from the African Marabouts, describes the offspring of a Haitian person of mixed race: European, African, Taíno, and East Asian, Southeast Asian, or South Asian.
The Marabou label dates to the colonial period of Haiti's history, meaning the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe person.[3] [4] However, Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, in his threevolume work on the colony,[5] describes Marabous as the product of the union of an African/European and an East Asian. Many events have shaped the lives of the Marabou, a people of mixed Haitian, East Asian, and other ancestries.