{"id":57768,"date":"2019-03-14T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57768"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:12:44","slug":"descendants-tell-stories-of-free-people-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57768","title":{"rendered":"Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of ColorDescendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2019-03-12<\/p>\n

Katy Reckdahl<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDwight and Beverly Stanton McKenna on the porch of the museum. \u201cIn this area, free people of color<\/a> left their fingerprints on everything,\u201d Ms. McKenna said. \u201cThis is who we are. This is our story.\u201d
\nErica Christmas for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

NEW ORLEANS<\/a> \u2014 Le Mus\u00e9e de f.p.c.<\/a> is devoted to the story of the free people of color<\/a> of New Orleans, as told by their descendants.<\/p>\n

Kim Coleman, 29, a curator at the museum whose grandmother was born three blocks from Le Mus\u00e9e, says that she sees it as a \u201creminder of who built the city culturally, politically and economically,\u201d even as the black population of the surrounding Trem\u00e9-Lafitte<\/a> neighborhood dropped to 64 percent from 92 percent after Hurricane Katrina<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the Civil War<\/a>, free people of color made up a higher proportion<\/a> of the population in New Orleans than anywhere else in the United States<\/a>. At the time of the Louisiana Purchase<\/a>, free black residents made up about 20 percent<\/a> of the city\u2019s population, largely because French and Spanish officials had allowed enslaved people to purchase their freedom.<\/p>\n

Le Mus\u00e9e de f.p.c. is on the first floor of a grand, white-pillared mansion on Esplanade Avenue<\/a>. Two hundred years ago, French-speaking Afro-Creole free people of color owned much of the property along Esplanade, a broad boulevard shaded by massive, gnarled live oak trees…<\/p>\n

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