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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.
Free people of color were still placed under restrictions via the Code noir, but were otherwise free to pursue their own careers. Compared to other European colonies in the Americas, a free person of color in the French colonial empire was highly likely to be literate, and had a high chance of owning businesses, properties and even their own ...
Their mixed-race 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 the late 18th and the early 19th centuries, many refugees came to New Orleans, adding a new wave of French-speaking free people of color.
Affranchi (French: [afʁɑ̃ʃi]) is a former French legal term denoting a freedman or emancipated slave, but also a pejorative term for Free people of color. [1] It is used in the English language to describe the social class of freedmen in Saint-Domingue, and other slave-holding French territories, who held legal rights intermediate between those of free whites and enslaved Africans.
40,000 Grand-blancs (literally "Great whites" in French) and Petit-blancs ("Little whites") 28,000 Sang-melés (French for: "Mixed blood") or free people of color. 452,000 slaves; The white population were 8% of Saint-Domingue’s population, but they owned 70% of the wealth and 75% of the slaves in the colony. The mulatto population were 5% of ...
The Code Noir, or black code, was a French law that restricted the lives of people of color living in French colonies.It had first been created to apply in the Caribbean colonies in 1685, but was extended to Louisiana in 1724.
Front page of Address to the National Assembly by the Société des amis des noirs, February 1790 Front page of Société des amis des noirs, March 1791. The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des amis des Noirs or Amis des noirs) was a French abolitionist society founded by Jacques Pierre Brissot and Étienne Clavière and directly inspired by the Society for Effecting the ...
Free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) — refers to people of mixed African, European, and sometimes Native American descent who were not enslaved in the era of slavery in the Americas. They were a distinct group of free people in the colonies of the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States.