French Louisiana

Forebade interracial marriages although French and slaves could marry Indians

• Marriage

• Freedom

• Cruelty

• Slave rights

• Equal rights

Forbade blacks and whites from living together as couples

• equal rights

• slave culture

• religion

• marriage

• cruelty

Frenchmen would sometimes live with slaves women because of the few French women in the colony

• freedom

• cruelty

• marriage

• equal rights

• religion

Some slave women chose to live with the French; others were forced

• slave culture

• marriage

• slave rights

• cruelty

• freedom

Children born to these couples were slaves

• cruelty

• equal rights

• religion

• marriage

• slave rights

Any freedom of slaves had to be approved by the Superior Council

• freedom

• slave culture

• religion

• marriage

• cruelty

Most slaves who were granted freedom had a French relative willing to go to enormous trouble and expense for this to happen

• equal rights

• religion

• freedom

• cruelty

• slave rights

Les gens de couleur libres = free people of color

• freedom

• equal rights

• religion

• slave culture

• marriage

Goal was to keep slaves peaceful and obedient

• slave culture

• slave rights

• cruelty

• marriage

• equal rights

The slaves were not allowed to be educated

• cruelty

• marriage

• freedom

• slave culture

• slave rights