{"id":25148,"date":"2012-09-01T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25148"},"modified":"2012-09-01T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:00:17","slug":"households-and-neighborhoods-among-free-people-of-color-in-new-orleans-a-view-from-the-census-1850-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25148","title":{"rendered":"Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/td\/1174\/\" target=\"_blank\">Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of New Orleans<br \/>\n2010-05-14<br \/>\n58 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frank Joseph Lovato<\/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>Historians have debated to what extent the free people of color in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> were members of a wealthy privileged elite or part of a middle or working class in the South&#8217;s largest antebellum city. This study steps outside the debate to suggest that analysis of the censuses of 1850 and 1860 shows correlations between neighborhoods, household structures, and occupations that reveal a heterogeneous population that eludes simple definitions. In particular this study focuses on mixed-race households to shed light on this segment of the free colored population that is mostly unstudied and generally misrepresented. <strong>This study also finds that immediately prior to the <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Civil War<\/strong><\/a><strong>, mixed-race families, for no easily understood reason, tended to cluster in certain neighborhoods.<\/strong> Mostly this study points out that by the Civil War, the free people of color in New Orleans had evolved into a diverse mostly working class population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List of Figures<\/li>\n<li>List of Tables<\/li>\n<li>List of Maps<\/li>\n<li>List of Census Form<\/li>\n<li>Abstract<\/li>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Origins of the Free People of Color in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Historiography of the Free People of Color in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Methodology Used for Data Gathering<\/li>\n<li>Economic Role of the Free People of Color in Ante-Bellum New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Community Organizations<\/li>\n<li>Neighborhoods and the Free People of Color<\/li>\n<li>Free People of Color and the Prelude to the Civil War<\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Tables<\/li>\n<li>Maps<\/li>\n<li>Census Forms<\/li>\n<li>Vita<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List of Figures<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Figure 1 &#8211; 4th Ward Mixed-Race Couple Distribution<\/li>\n<li>Figure 2 &#8211; 5th Ward Mixed-Race Couple Distribution<\/li>\n<li>Figure 3 \u2013 New Orleans Population in 1850 &amp; 1860<\/li>\n<li>Figure 4 \u2013 New Orleans Colored Population in 1850 &amp; 1860<\/li>\n<li>Figure 5 \u2013Population Density of Colored Males in 1850 &amp; 1860<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List of Tables<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Table 1 \u2013 1850 New Orleans Census<\/li>\n<li>Table 2 \u2013 1860 New Orleans Census<\/li>\n<li>Table 3 \u2013 Population Density for Colored, Mulatto and Blacks in the 1850 New Orleans Census<\/li>\n<li>Table 4 \u2013 Population Density for Colored, Mulatto and Blacks in the 1860 New Orleans Census<\/li>\n<li>Table 5 &#8211; Property Values of the Free People of Color in 1850 New Orleans<\/li>\n<li>Table 6 &#8211; Property Values of the Free People of Color in 1860 New Orleans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List of Maps<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MUNICIPALITIES and WARDS 1847<\/li>\n<li>WARDS 1852<\/li>\n<li>Neighborhoods in New Orleans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>List of Census Forms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Title Page 1st and 4th Wards (1st Municipality)<\/li>\n<li>1st Ward, 1st Municipality \u2013 1850<\/li>\n<li>9th Wards -1860<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=2157&amp;context=td\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860 University of New Orleans 2010-05-14 58 pages Frank Joseph Lovato 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,838,459,369,8,20],"tags":[11727,11726,11728,1438,7807],"class_list":["post-25148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-dissertations","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-frank-j-lovato","tag-frank-joseph-lovato","tag-frank-lovato","tag-new-orleans","tag-university-of-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148","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=25148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}