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- Title
Free (Business) People of Color: Antebellum Black Business Owners in New Orleans and Charleston.
- Authors
Vasconcellos, Ramon
- Abstract
The article focuses on free African American business community in New Orleans, Louisiana and Charleston, South Carolina during the Antebellum period. In early 18th century, French settlers engaged with Native American and African American slave women that resulted in children. Many fathers recognized their offspring and freed them at birth. Census data in 1795 revealed that free people of color held positions as cabinet makers and retailers and their ascendancy continued.
- Subjects
CHARLESTON (S.C.); NEW Orleans (La.); FREE African Americans; FREE Black people; ENSLAVED African Americans
- Publication
Financial History, 2020, Issue 135, p22
- ISSN
1520-4723
- Publication type
Article