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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country (Paperback)
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Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country (Paperback)
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Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of
southwestern 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 an integral part of the
community. Though not accepted by white society, they were
unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white
neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned
slaves. After the Civil War some Creoles of Color, being
light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe
agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated
from general society.
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