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2. Free people of color - Wikipedia

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   Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, Dominica, c. 1764–1796.. In the context 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 of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.

3. Free Negro - Wikipedia

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   Free woman of color with quadroon daughter (also free); late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans. In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved.

4. Creoles of color - Wikipedia

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   The Free People of Color of New Orleans: An Introduction. Margaret Media, Inc. ISBN 9781508483670. Clark, Emily (2013). The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469607528. Dominguez, Virginia (1986).

5. African Americans in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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   The first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 on the Aurore slave ship from Whydah, only a year after the founding of New Orleans. [7] Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8]

6. Major D'Aquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color - Wikipedia

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   Major D'Aquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color was a Louisiana Militia unit consisting of free people of color which fought in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The unit's nominal commander was Major Louis D'Aquin, but during the battle it was led by Captain Joseph Savary.

7. Restaurant Opportunities Center - Wikipedia

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   The group was founded with funding from multiple foundations with a stated goal to “organize all unorganized restaurant workers in New York City.” [3] ROC-NY was founded by immigration attorney Saru Jayaraman and Windows on the World waiter Fekkak Mamdouh and other restaurant workers who survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 [3] to provide support for the ...