A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

by Evelyn L. Wilson

A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author Evelyn L. Wilson documents the presence, land ownership, business development, and personal relationships of free people of color in this Louisiana parish. In the last decade before the Civil War, tensions over slavery in West Feliciana Parish,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496852168
• ISBN13: 9781496852168
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"