Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

By Carl A. Brasseaux

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878059490
• ISBN13: 9780878059492
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"