Cane River's Creoles of Color
by
Gary B. Mills, Elizabeth Shown Mills
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced...