in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European...

Creoles of color became identified as a distinct ethnic group, Gens de couleur libres (free persons of color), and were granted their free-person status...

Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres is a live in-studio album by jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts. It was the first of their twelve-chapter Coin...

Petits blancs shared the same societal level as gens de couleur libres. The Gens de couleur libres class was made up of affranchis (ex-slaves), free-born...

the African-American ethnic group. In the twentieth century, the gens de couleur libres in Louisiana became increasingly associated with the term Creole...

Africans. In Saint-Domingue, roughly half of the affranchis were gens de couleur libres (free people of color; Mulatto) and the other half African slaves...

associate Creoles specifically with those people descended from the gens de couleur libres (free people of color), others cling to the word's original definition...

is about the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War. The gens de couleur libres were the descendants...

Revolution, both whites and free people of color (affranchis or gens de couleur libres), arrived in New Orleans; a number brought their slaves with them...

children became the nucleus of the class of free people of color or gens de couleur libres in Louisiana and Saint-Domingue. After the Haitian Revolution in...

for treatment of slaves, as well as restrictions and rights for gens de couleur libres, a growing class of free people of color. They had the right to...

Louisiana—such as Les Cenelles, a poetry anthology compiled by a group of gens de couleur libres, and Creole-authored novels such as L'Habitation St-Ybars or Pouponne...

Bréda plantation to becoming a member of the greater community of gens de couleur libres (free people of color). This was a diverse group of Affranchis (freed...

the French colony a relatively large group of Creoles of Color (gens de couleur libres), who were primarily descended from African slave women and French...

revolution, both whites and free people of color (affranchis or gens de couleur libres), fled to New Orleans, often bringing African slaves with them,...

Ethnography Stewart, Whitney Nell (2018). "Fashioning Frenchness: Gens de Couleur Libres and the Cultural Struggle for Power in Antebellum New Orleans"....

free population of color in the Caribbean who were known as the Gens de couleur libres (free people of color). Population estimations in 1789 indicate...

Coin project have received wide acclaim: Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres was named in multiple JazzTimes 2011 Critics’ Lists; Coin Coin Chapter...

former New France, free African people were classified in French as gens de couleur libres. They were generally born to African or mixed-race mothers and European...

Dessalines became increasingly embittered toward both the whites and gens de couleur libres (the mixed-race residents of Saint-Domingue) in the years of conflict...

Petits blancs shared the same societal level as gens de couleur libres. The gens de couleur libres class was made up of affranchis (ex-slaves), free...

woodwind instruments, instead of the drums. Affranchi Gens de couleur libres Redoutes des filles de couleur Tumba francesa Daniel, Yvonne (15 December 2011)...

slavery, which was eventually legislated on 4 February 1794. The gens de couleur libres (manumitted slaves) had already been granted civil rights on 4 April...

or gens de couleur libres, who were usually mixed-race (sometimes referred to as mulattoes), being of both African and French descent. These gens de couleur...

which made him a quadroon (a quarter African ancestry). Like other gens de couleur libres (free people of color) with wealthy fathers, Pétion was sent to...

domain. Stewart, Whitney Nell (2018-06-23). "Fashioning Frenchness: Gens de Couleur Libres and the Cultural Struggle for Power in Antebellum New Orleans"....

revolution, both whites and free people of color (affranchis or gens de couleur libres), fled to New Orleans, often bringing African slaves with them,...

Louisiana Creole, however, is associated with free people of color (gens de couleur libres), which was generally a third class of mixed-race people who were...

figure in the Gens de couleur libres society of New Orleans. She belonged to the most famous of the placées of New Orleans alongside Eulalie de Mandéville...

Spanish rule, there developed a class of free people of color (gens de couleur libres), mostly multiracial descendants of European men and enslaved or...