2024年9月9日 · In New Orleans free women of color outnumbered free men of color throughout the colonial era and into the nineteenth century. This demographic situation contributed to the regular occurrence of relationships between white men and women of African descent.

2023年6月20日 · Approximately 3,000 free Black Saint-Dominguans, mostly women and children, tripled the free people of color population. In 1810 New Orleans was home to almost 5,000 free people of color, making up close to 29 percent of the city’s total population, a far higher proportion than any other city in the American South.

2023年6月28日 · Portrait of a Free Woman of Color by François Jacques Fleischbein. Free people of color—known as gens de couleur libres in French—formed a distinctive segment of Louisiana’s population from the French colonial period through the 1860s. Most free people of color resided in New Orleans and spoke French as their first language.

By one estimate, a quarter of the houses along the main streets of New Orleans were owned by free blacks, many of whom were single women. At Natchitoches in central Louisiana, Marie Thérèse Metoyer (better known as "Coincoin") managed several large estates given to her by a French official with whom she had a 25 years-long liaison and ten ...

2023年9月3日 · In New Orleans, liaisons between white men and slave women were particularly encouraged by the physical arrangement of the city, the pattern of urban households, and the

2018年5月7日 · Free people of color in New Orleans, particularly those with a large amount of European ancestry, occupied a distinct space between privilege and extreme oppression that entailed adherence to a unique set of explicit laws and unwritten social constraints.

2017年1月7日 · Many free women of color lived in antebellum New Orleans. Free women of color tried hard to improve their lives, and engaged in a wide range of economic activities, including slaveholding. Numerous records show that free women of color owned slaves. It is hard to determine why free women of color engaged in such business.

2018年3月13日 · In my research, I plan to explore the roles of Free Women of Color in Antebellum New Orleans and the ways in which these roles differ from other populations in the city during that time. I intend for my research to cover laws, traditions, and social customs unique to free women of color at that time.

2017年2月10日 · Henriette DeLille – A Creole nun who founded the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans, which was composed of Free Women of Color who provided nursing care and a home for orphans, and also established schools. In 1988, the order formally opened the cause with the Holy See of the canonization of Henriette DeLille.

2024年8月14日 · The 2024 report highlights several priority areas of focus in order to improve the status of women, including health care for women of color, expanding child care access and affordability, attracting working-age populations to New Orleans, preventing intimate partner violence, supporting racial minority men and boys and addressing climate ...