Bücher von Carl A. Brasseaux

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. This probing book is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials.

In this study, the author aims to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He rejects accepted notions about the routes Acadians travelled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state.

Comprehensively examines the demographic growth, cultural evolution, and political involvement of Louisiana's large Acadian community between the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and 1877, the end of Reconstruction in Louisiana, when traditional distinctions between Acadians and neighbouring groups had ceased to be valid.