Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country
- ISBN-10
- 1604736089
- ISBN-13
- 9781604736083
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 189
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02-20
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Authors
- Carl A. Brasseaux, Claude F. Oubre
Description
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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