“Situated within the Gulf South region, the Louisiana frontier, which included the Attakapas and Opelousas districts, slowly emerged as a borderland where Native Americans, French, Spanish, Creoles, Acadians, and Africans interacted to produce a heterogeneous population in which historically marginalized groups participated in an egalitarian economy. Within this society, women of color bent, sidestepped, or ignored legal regulations and social mores as they maneuvered life on the Louisiana frontier, emerging as crucial participants in the establishment of families and development of communities while finding agency on the Louisiana frontier.”
Donovan Draft FINALManeuvering Life: Women of Color on the Louisiana Frontier by Mary Magdalen Donovan | Masters thesis
Categories: Dissertations & Theses, Free People of Color (FPOC), Genealogy, History, Law, Migrations, Slavery