The Great and Bizarre Men of Color Movement in Antebellum New Orleans Posted By : Ruggero T. Ricordi
The economic and intellectual elite of les gens de couleur libres in Antebellum New Orleans made it a point to distance itself from both races. Their covert mistrust of their Caucasian neighbors was shared by their purely African cousins; their oftentimes distinct contempt for anyone who was not of mixed origin resembled, it must be noted, the Germans attitude towards non-Arians almost a century later. The idea was that the white race had played itself out, while the black race, or at least i
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