of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people... 36 KB (4,879 words) - 23:48, 2 May 2024 |
American Colonization Society (redirect from The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America) Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the repatriation of freeborn... 78 KB (8,382 words) - 04:58, 3 May 2024 |
times to refer to white people, mixed-race people, and black people, both free-born and enslaved. The addition of "-of color" was historically necessary... 32 KB (3,286 words) - 13:57, 2 May 2024 |
The term "person of color" (pl.: people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered... 27 KB (2,962 words) - 17:58, 29 March 2024 |
Plaçage (category Louisiana Creole people) known as placées; their relationships were recognized among the free people of color as mariages de la main gauche or left-handed marriages. They became... 40 KB (5,699 words) - 22:42, 9 December 2023 |
Freedman (redirect from Freed slave) growth of the community of Creoles of color, or free people of color. New Orleans had the largest community of free people of color, well-established before... 26 KB (3,162 words) - 15:11, 27 February 2024 |
Acadiana (redirect from The Heart of Acadiana) understood to include people of Acadian descent. Prior to the U.S. Civil War, Louisiana Creoles of color were a class of free people who either gained their... 36 KB (3,597 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024 |
Mulatto (redirect from Mulatto People) Children born to free mixed-race mothers were also free.[citation needed] Paul Heinegg has documented that most of the free people of color listed in the... 86 KB (9,468 words) - 23:52, 4 May 2024 |
documented that many individuals were classified as free people of color, or similar terms in a variety of colonial, local and state records. Some CRP have... 22 KB (3,131 words) - 06:45, 20 April 2024 |
Affranchi (category Person of color) but also a pejorative term for Free people of color. It is used in the English language to describe the social class of freedmen in Saint-Domingue, and... 5 KB (522 words) - 21:58, 27 April 2024 |
most of the Piscataway individuals as "free people of color", "Free Negro" or "mulatto" on state and federal census records, largely because of their... 38 KB (4,318 words) - 17:12, 29 April 2024 |
Haitian Revolution (redirect from Second War of Haitian Independence) the former slaves had won, and with the collaboration of already free people of color, of their independence from white Europeans. The revolution was the... 141 KB (17,976 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2024 |
was founded in 1816. It supported the settlement of thousands of free people of color to its colony of Liberia, in West Africa. There were also initially... 21 KB (1,737 words) - 12:46, 29 April 2024 |
of free people of color, especially in the French islands, where persons of mixed race were given certain rights. On Saint-Domingue, free people of color... 24 KB (2,340 words) - 00:19, 16 April 2024 |
Jersey Dutch language (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code) 1630, and by Black slaves and free people of color also residing in that region, as well as the American Indian people known as the Ramapough Lenape Nation... 15 KB (1,354 words) - 22:36, 4 February 2024 |
William Ellison (category Free Negroes) population were slaves. Ellison and his sons were among a number of successful free people of color in the antebellum years, but Ellison's master had passed on... 16 KB (2,227 words) - 01:45, 16 April 2024 |
people of color were driven out of the state by series of punitive laws beginning in 1843; by 1860 there were only 30 free people of color in Arkansas... 8 KB (894 words) - 05:25, 16 February 2024 |
Code Noir (redirect from Black Code of Louis XIV) of antisemitic trends in the Kingdom of France. Free people of color were still placed under restrictions via the Code noir, but were otherwise free to... 68 KB (8,785 words) - 03:10, 26 April 2024 |
women share their reactions to their lives and seeing a free society and free people of color. Perkins-Valdez said that she was inspired to write the... 6 KB (712 words) - 14:06, 29 April 2024 |
Charleston, South Carolina (redirect from Parish of St. Philip and St. Michael) efforts of the state legislature to halt manumissions, Charleston had already had a large class of free people of color as well. At the onset of the war... 152 KB (15,732 words) - 13:29, 16 April 2024 |
found that most families of free people of color in colonial times were founded from the unions of white women, whether free or indentured servants and... 148 KB (15,780 words) - 10:01, 2 March 2024 |
New Orleans (redirect from Parish of Orleans) recorded 81 percent of the free people of color as mulatto, a term used to cover all degrees of mixed race.[page needed] Mostly part of the Francophone group... 270 KB (25,135 words) - 01:57, 25 April 2024 |
Haiti (redirect from Republic of Haiti) made the colony one of the world's richest. In the midst of the French Revolution, enslaved persons, maroons, and free people of color launched the Haitian... 239 KB (23,274 words) - 03:32, 5 May 2024 |
Francis Williams (poet) (category Free people of color) Jamaica, he established a free school for free people of color in Jamaica. Francis Williams was born c. 1690 in the English colony of Jamaica to John and Dorothy... 8 KB (1,041 words) - 16:02, 4 May 2024 |