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    Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

    Freed the slaves, what the heck! Next you will be trying to tell me we've landed on the moon!

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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

    Goes to show that there are probably no...or only very few...'pure-bred' whites in the South. Makes racism a bit silly.
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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

    Get educated here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla%C3%A7age. In New Orleans, at least, offspring of a mixed race marriage, which was legal in NO at the time, were considered "free people of color. See also Mulatto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

    Note: The original definition of Creole was without regard to race and was applied to the first generation of European decent (i.e., settler). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_people

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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

    The founding and populating of what is now the United States is much different than the common thought. From the early 1600's to the American Revolution is over 150 years. Of Europeans many arrived through Quebec - sometimes called the 14th colony. In Canada native brides were most of the women available. This may be true for other colonies. These marriages created children called "metis" (mixed). Early explorers, voyagers, and fur trappers/traders were out in the West where only native brides were available. Sadly photography wasn't around at that time. Photographs such as the ones post above provide evidence of our actual history. Photography has been an important tool to record and document, times and places - as they were (of course through the photographers eyes).

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    Racism is a tool,formthise who really run the economic worl to keep the people apart and take advantage of us..Some people have over $100 BILLION and still need more..Need a Chinese revolution.

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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Opheim View Post
    The founding and populating of what is now the United States is much different than the common thought. From the early 1600's to the American Revolution is over 150 years. Of Europeans many arrived through Quebec - sometimes called the 14th colony. In Canada native brides were most of the women available. [...]
    True! I'm glad you brought that up. It began in part with my greatest North American grandfather who sailed with Champlain and stayed on in what became Quebec. So I'm something like 1/100th part Native American.

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    I could be native American as well one my ancestor's arrived in the 1630's in Quebec after it was returned to France. My direct line left New France after the French and Indian War and were were fur trapper / traders in the Great Lakes area then moving South to St. Louis in the 1760's. I wish there were photographs!

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    Re: Photographs of freed slaves, New Orleans

    New Orleans was the second city in North America to be introduced to photography, 1840, one year after Daguerre introduced his process. It was opened by Jules Lion, a freeman of color: http://knowla.org/entry/481/

    Quote Originally Posted by tgtaylor View Post
    Get educated here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla%C3%A7age. In New Orleans, at least, offspring of a mixed race marriage, which was legal in NO at the time, were considered "free people of color. See also Mulatto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

    Note: The original definition of Creole was without regard to race and was applied to the first generation of European decent (i.e., settler). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_people

    Thomas

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