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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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Carl A. Brasseaux, former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and a Louisiana Writer of the Year, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is author or coauthor of more than forty books including
Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou;
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.
