Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

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.

Author: Carl a. Brasseaux
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 09/01/1996
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.90w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780878059492
ISBN10: 0878059490
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General

About the Author
Carl A. Brasseaux, former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is author or coauthor of more than three dozen books and more than one hundred scholarly articles, including Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain; Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877; and Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is a former Louisiana Writer of the Year. Claude F. Oubre is professor of history and political science at Louisiana State University at Eunice. Keith P. Fontenot is an archivist at St. Landry Parish Clerk of Courts, 27th Judicial District, Opelousas, Louisiana.