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Creoles of Louisiana, The

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All our textbooks in school cover the American Revolution from England emphasizing the 13 colonies. This book deals in fascinating detail with the revolution that took place in New Orleans area with the French and Spanish, during the late 1700's. The book was written before 1900, but don't let that scare you. The author writes well and knows his history!

This was bought for a family member whose family had ties in Louisiana. She loved it. She already has several of Cable's books and was happy to get this one.

I enjoyed this book. It was enjoyable history. It came on time, in good condition, thank you.

This is a fantastic book on Creoles, it is well researched and very enlightening. The word Creole means the original European natives of New Orleans, NOT light skinned African Americans, now I'm sure many light skinned blacks from New Orleans has Creole ancestry. The word has been eroneously used, when I tell people that my grandmother was of Creole and Austrian ancestry, they are like, wow, I did not know you were black..im like, uh, im not black, it's so annoying, and the media perpetuates the idea, that the word means any light skinned black person from Louisiana. Everyone in Louisiana should have to read this book in history class, then they could get educated on the word, and spread the information the the obtuse media. Highly recommended.