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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0878059490
ISBN13: 9780878059492
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Sep 1 1996
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of south-western Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention.

This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials.

During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society--white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become and integral part of the community.

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