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Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly capable, Cane River's Creoles of color enjoyed economic privileges but led politically constricted lives. Like their white neighbors, they publicly supported the Confederacy and suffered the same depredations of war and political and social uncertainties of Reconstruction. Unlike white Creoles, however, they did not recover amid cycles of Redeemer and Jim Crow politics.First published in 1977, The Forgotten People offers a socioeconomic history of this widely publicizedbut also highly romanticized community -- a minority group thatfit no stereotypes, refused all outside labels, and still struggles to explain its identity in a world mystified byCreolism.

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Author

Gary B. Mills

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14