Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

by Carl A. Brasseaux

Book Overview

Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of southwestern 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878059490
• ISBN13: 9780878059492
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"