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Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans

This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans's free people of color. The emphasis of this work is that French culture, mixed Gallic and African ancestry, and freedom from slavery served as the three keys to the identity of this class of people. Taken together, these three factors separated the free people of color from the other major groups residing in New Orleans - Anglo-Americans, white Creoles and black slaves. The introduction provides an overview of the topic and states the need for this study. Chapter 1 provides a look at New Orleans from the perspective of the free people of color. Chapter 2 investigates the slaveownership of these people. Chapter 3 examines the published literature of the free people of color. The conclusion summarizes the significance found in the preceding three chapters and puts their findings into a broader interpretive framework.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc5369
Date08 1900
CreatorsHobratsch, Ben Melvin
ContributorsHagler, D. Harland, Smith, F. Todd, McCaslin, Richard B.
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Hobratsch, Ben Melvin, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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