{"product_id":"creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country-9780878059492","title":"Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Carl a. Brasseaux | Claude F. Oubre | Keith P. Fontenot\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Minority Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreoles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614776246423,"sku":"9780878059492","price":3452.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780878059492.webp?v=1775096211","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country-9780878059492","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}