{"id":7657,"date":"2010-06-23T16:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7657"},"modified":"2010-06-23T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:51:39","slug":"placage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7657","title":{"rendered":"pla\u00e7age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>pla\u00e7age<\/strong> was a recognized extralegal system in which white <a title=\"French people\" href=\"\/wiki\/French_people\">French<\/a> and <a title=\"Spanish people\" href=\"\/wiki\/Spanish_people\">Spanish<\/a> and later <a title=\"Louisiana Creole people\" href=\"\/wiki\/Louisiana_Creole_people\">Creole<\/a> men entered into the equivalent of <a title=\"Common-law marriage\" href=\"\/wiki\/Common-law_marriage\">common-law marriages<\/a> with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent. The term comes from the French <em>placer<\/em> meaning &#8220;to place with&#8221;. The women were not legally recognized as wives, but were known as <em>plac\u00e9es<\/em>; their relationships were recognized among the <a title=\"Free people of color\" href=\"\/wiki\/Free_people_of_color\">free people of color<\/a> as <em>mariages de la main gauche<\/em> or <strong><a title=\"Morganatic marriage\" href=\"\/wiki\/Morganatic_marriage\">left-handed marriages<\/a><\/strong>. Many were often quarteronnes or <a title=\"Quadroon\" href=\"\/wiki\/Quadroon\">quadroons<\/a>, the offspring of a European and a <a title=\"Mulatto\" href=\"\/wiki\/Mulatto\">mulatto<\/a>, but pla\u00e7age did occur between whites and mulattoes and blacks. The system flourished throughout the <a title=\"Louisiana (New France)\" href=\"\/wiki\/Louisiana_(New_France)\">French<\/a> and Spanish colonial periods, and apparently reached its zenith during the latter, between 1769 and 1803. It was not limited to Louisiana, but also flourished in the cities of <a title=\"Natchez\" href=\"\/wiki\/Natchez\">Natchez<\/a> and Biloxi, <a title=\"Mississippi\" href=\"\/wiki\/Mississippi\">Mississippi<\/a>; <a title=\"Mobile, Alabama\" href=\"\/wiki\/Mobile,_Alabama\">Mobile<\/a>, <a title=\"Alabama\" href=\"\/wiki\/Alabama\">Alabama<\/a>; <a title=\"St. Augustine, Florida\" href=\"\/wiki\/St._Augustine,_Florida\">St. Augustine<\/a> and <a title=\"Pensacola, Florida\" href=\"\/wiki\/Pensacola,_Florida\">Pensacola<\/a>, <a title=\"Florida\" href=\"\/wiki\/Florida\">Florida<\/a>; as well as <a title=\"Saint-Domingue\" href=\"\/wiki\/Saint-Domingue\">Saint-Domingue<\/a> (present-day <a title=\"Haiti\" href=\"\/wiki\/Haiti\">Haiti<\/a>). Pla\u00e7age, however, drew most of its fame\u2014and notoriety\u2014from its open application in <a title=\"New Orleans\" href=\"\/wiki\/New_Orleans\">New Orleans<\/a>. Despite the prevalence of interracial encounters in the colony, not all Creole women of color were or became plac\u00e9es&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pla%C3%A7age\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pla\u00e7age was a recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning &#8220;to place with&#8221;. The women were not legally recognized as wives, but were known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","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=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}