{"id":22727,"date":"2012-04-27T01:56:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22727"},"modified":"2015-11-19T00:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T00:48:52","slug":"investing-in-citizenship-free-men-of-color-of-color-and-the-case-against-citizens-bank-antebellum-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22727","title":{"rendered":"Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/td\/1353\" target=\"_blank\">Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of New Orleans<br \/>\nDecember 2011<br \/>\n58 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:hfrancis@uno.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah J. Francis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the popularity of free people of color in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> as a research topic, the history of free people of color remains misunderstood. The prevailing view of free people of color is that of people who: engaged in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7657\" target=\"_blank\">pla<em>\u00e7<\/em>age<\/a>, attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\">quadroon balls<\/a>, were desperately dependent upon the dominant population, and were uninterested or afraid to garner rights for themselves. Contemporary historians have endeavored to amend this stereotypical perception; this study aims to be a part of the trend of revisionist history through an in-depth analysis of the co-plaintiffs in <em>Boisdor\u00e9 and Goul\u00e9, f.p.c., v. Citizens Bank<\/em> and their case. Because Boisdor\u00e9 and Goul\u00e9 sue at critical time in New Orleans history, three decades after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana_Purchase\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana Purchase<\/a> during the American transformation of New Orleans, their case epitomizes the era in which it occurs. In bringing suit, Boisdor\u00e9 and Goul\u00e9 attempted to thwart some of those forth coming changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abstract<\/li>\n<li>Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana\n<ul>\n<li>Historiography of Citizens Bank and Free People of Color<\/li>\n<li>Historical Scholarship of Free People of Color in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Francois Boisdor\u00e9 and John Goul\u00e9 as Free People of Color in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Citizens Bank<\/li>\n<li>Boisdor\u00e9 and Goul\u00e9\u2019s Legal Counsel: Judah Benjamin and Christian Roselius<\/li>\n<li><em>Boisdor\u00e9 and Goul\u00e9 v. Citizens Bank<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Implications of the Case<\/li>\n<li>Changes in Nineteenth Century New Orleans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Vita<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=2410&amp;context=td\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in Citizenship: Free Men of Color of Color and the case against Citizens Bank ~ Antebellum Louisiana University of New Orleans December 2011 58 pages Hannah J. Francis A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,459,1467,369,8,20],"tags":[10542,10541,1438,7807],"class_list":["post-22727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertations","category-history","category-law","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hannah-francis","tag-hannah-j-francis","tag-new-orleans","tag-university-of-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44046,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions\/44046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}