Collection. 1831-1979.

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Collection. 1831-1979.

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3 reels of negative microfilm and 28 photocopies of successions, marriage contracts, and marriage entries. The latter are from Registers of Marriages of free persons of color at St. Louis Cathedral. The data for the microfilm reels were compiled from the appropriate decennial census of the United States for 1850, 1860, and 1870. Abstracted information is included about those persons of color who possessed $200 or more in property during the periods covered. The principals of the transactions creating the documents were free during the period of slavery and members of the "gens du couleur libres" class. Names included in the documents are Jerome Bayon, G. Casanave, Louis Emilien Charbonnet, Basile R. Crocker, Adelard Duvignaux, Antoinette Hazeur, Marie Laveau, John L. Lewis, Ulysses Populus, Louis Roudanez, and Camille Thierry.

3 reels negative microfilm. 28 photocopies, 0.4 linear feet.

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6953473

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Bayon, Jerome, d. ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Blassingame, John W., 1940-2000

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John Wesley Blassingame was born on March 23, 1940, in Covington, Georgia. He received a B.A. (1960) from Fort Valley State College, an M.A. (1961) from Howard University, and an M.Phil. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1971) from Yale University. Blassingame joined the Yale faculty in 1970. He served as the acting chairman of Afro-American studies (1971-1972, 1976-1977) and as chairman (1981-1989). In the mid-1970s, he also became the editor and publisher of the papers of Frederick Douglass. He wrote and ed...

Duvignaux, Adelard, d.ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Charbonnet, Louis Emilien. d ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Casanave, G., d. ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Saint Louis (Mo.). Cathedral.

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Populus, Ulysses, d. ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Laveau, Marie, 1801-1881

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Marie Laveau (b. Sept. 10, 1801, New Orleans, LA–d. June 15, 1881, New Orleans, LA) was a New Orleans Voodoo Queen in the 19th Century. Her parents were Marguerite Henry, a free woman of color of Native American, African, and French descent, and Charles Laveau Trudeau. She was married to Jacques Paris for a year before he died; they had two daughters. After Jacques's death, Marie worked as a hair dresser to the New Orleans elite and lived with Christopher Dominick de Glapion. During h...

Hazeur, Antoinette, d. ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Thierry, Camille, 1814-1875

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Crocker, Basile R., d. ca. 1800-79.

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Lewis, John L., d. ca. 18 ̲?̲

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Roudanez, Louis, d. 1823-90.

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