The document below is a list of all slave emancipations at the Attakapas Post and St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, from 1756-1863. These areRead More
Maneuvering Life: Women of Color on the Louisiana Frontier by Mary Magdalen Donovan | Masters thesis
“Situated within the Gulf South region, the Louisiana frontier, which included the Attakapas and Opelousas districts, slowly emerged as a borderland where NativeRead More
The Masses: The ethnogenesis of Creole cowboy culture in Southwest Louisiana
During the time of the French, the vast prairies of present-day Southwest Louisiana remained mostly uncolonized. The only inhabitants consisted mainly of scatteredRead More