The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Faubourg Treme in New Orleans has been described as the oldest black neighborhood in America. Here, Force uses as his starting point a dispute in 1813 over the payments for a house between a white man and a free man of color that took place in Treme. Attempting to find out more about both parties to...

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Published in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2013-06, Vol.100 (1), p.21-45
Main Author: Force, Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American studies
American history
Black culture
Black history
Creoles
Cultural groups
Cultural identity
Families & family life
Slavery
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Summary:Faubourg Treme in New Orleans has been described as the oldest black neighborhood in America. Here, Force uses as his starting point a dispute in 1813 over the payments for a house between a white man and a free man of color that took place in Treme. Attempting to find out more about both parties to the case (won by the free man of color), he reconstructs each man's family history and follows the archival track on a journey to Cuba, Haiti, France, Spain, and Senegal. What might have seemed at first sight like a random encounter between representatives of two different racial groups emerges as a story of shared ancestries and cultural references, as well as shifting allegiances and identities.
ISSN:0021-8723
1936-0967
1945-2314
DOI:10.1093/jahist/jat082