--- product_id: 58960967 title: "Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country" price: "229.11 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/58960967-creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Focus on multicultural identity Deep historical insight Covers 18th-20th centuries Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country **Price:** 229.11 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Discover the untold legacy of Louisiana’s Creoles—where history meets identity. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country - **How much does it cost?** 229.11 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/58960967-creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Connect Your Roots:** A must-read for anyone tracing Creole heritage or passionate about multicultural American history. - • **Primary Source Rich:** Dive into meticulously researched primary documents for authentic, nuanced perspectives. - • **Critically Acclaimed:** Highly rated with a 4.6-star average, praised for its depth and cultural relevance. - • **Unearth Hidden Histories:** Explore the untold story of Louisiana’s Creoles of Color, a pivotal yet overlooked community. - • **Cultural Complexity Explored:** Understand the unique social dynamics and identity struggles in antebellum and postbellum Louisiana. ## Overview Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country is a rigorously researched historical book that examines the complex social, cultural, and economic roles of the Creoles of Color in southwestern Louisiana from the mid-18th to early 20th centuries. Using primary sources, it reveals their unique position outside traditional racial hierarchies and their efforts to shape community identity, making it an essential read for cultural historians and those exploring Creole heritage. ## Description 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. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention. This probing book, focused on the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, is the first to scrutinize this multiracial group through a close study of primary resource materials. During the antebellum period they were excluded from the state's three-tiered society―white, free people of color, and slaves. Yet Creoles of Color were a dynamic component in the region's economy, for they were self-compelled in efforts to become an integral part of the community. Though not accepted by white society, they were unwilling to be classified as black. Imitating their white neighbors, many were Catholic, spoke the French language, and owned slaves. After the Civil War, some Creoles of Color, being light-skinned, passed for white. Others relocated to safe agricultural enclaves, becoming even more clannish and isolated from general society. Review: Wonderful book on Early Louisiana History - This is an excellent book that will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of Louisiana. It tells a little know story about the people who helped develop and build Louisiana. If you are from Louisiana and a Creole of Color yourself then Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country will be a means of connecting your roots. Review: Very informative - This book provides many answers and insights into an area I often visited during my childhood. I am the child of a black creole from The Washington Plaisance area. This book gave me insight into some of the values and quirkiness I have today. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #387,127 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,118 in Cultural & Ethnic Studies #4,606 in U.S. State & Local History | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 51 Reviews | ## Images ![Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ZkszueXVL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful book on Early Louisiana History *by T***L on June 22, 2015* This is an excellent book that will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of Louisiana. It tells a little know story about the people who helped develop and build Louisiana. If you are from Louisiana and a Creole of Color yourself then Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country will be a means of connecting your roots. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very informative *by M***Y on February 18, 2023* This book provides many answers and insights into an area I often visited during my childhood. I am the child of a black creole from The Washington Plaisance area. This book gave me insight into some of the values and quirkiness I have today. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good, but Gets Bogged Down *by A***N on July 8, 2012* This is a fine piece of scholarship, as well as one that sheds light on an all-but-forgotten aspect of Louisiana's Creole history. The authors provide a wonderfully detailed treatment of the Southwestern Louisiana Creoles of Color that adds to a growing body of scholarship on the topic. This book stands as a good counter-point to studies of New Orleans's Creoles of Color, and further proves that the Colored Creole identity was not the same as the African American identity, and that the free black community of the state, not just that of New Orleans, was far from a monolithic group unified by racial oppression. The authors describe a community dedicated to maintaining their shared social status above dark-skinned free blacks and slaves, and assuredly below the white community. However, the authors are sure to mention that the color line was not as established in the Bayou Country, or in Louisiana as a whole, as many people have previously believed. Rather, Colored Creoles and whites worked together, intermarried (most often common-law marriages), had children, and inherited property from each other. The Creoles of Color of the Bayou Country provide yet another fine example of a mixed-race population recognizing and treating itself as different from both blacks and whites, inhabiting an ambiguous, complex position in the social hierarchy, and struggling to protect the few privileges (what we would call rights today) granted them by a white-dominated society. This books goes well with the only other first-rate study of Creoles of Color outside of New Orleans, Gary B. Mills's "The Forgotten People" (LSU Press, 1977). --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/58960967-creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/58960967-creoles-of-color-in-the-bayou-country) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-11-10*