The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction by Mary Gehman, Lloyd Dennis

The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction

Mary Gehman, Lloyd Dennis

152 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Antebellum New Orleans was home to thousands of urbane , educated and well to do free blacks. The French called them les gens de couleur libre, the free people of color; after the Civil War they were known as the Creoles of color, shortened today ...

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