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Creole Chronology

The Genisis to the 21st Centuary

 
 
 
 
 
 

Very few if Anyone, here in America, knows just When ,Where and how Our Creole Culture came to Be..These chain of events that created our Creole people and culture as listed in Our Creole chronology will, hopefully, provide some answers and shine some light on Our cultural history

2300 years of Cultural Continuity

Where it all Begun ...The Multi-Racial Moors...Click on Video

Creole Chronology

 

"When a society or a civilization perishes,
one condition can always be found.
They forgot where they
came from."


Carl Sandburg

 
Dedicated to Mr Gilbert Martin , Author of the Creole Chronology
 

 

the purpose is to validate the concept that Louisiana Creoles and their decendants are indeed a distinct ethnic group and more over.

the reader shall realize that the color of an individuals skin does not place the individual in a specific culture or remove him from a specific Culture...CULTURE HAS NO COLOR

The First Mulattos/Creoles to set foot in the New World

 

 
 

300 B.C..

711 A.D.

Who were the Moors? ...Click here for video

where are they now ? Click here for video

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When the Portuguese first sailed down the Atlantic coast of Africa in the 1430's, they were interested in one thing. Surprisingly, given modern perspectives, it was not slaves but gold.. There was a very small market for African slaves as domestic workers in Europe, and as workers on the sugar plantations of the Mediterranean.Rather than trading slaves back to Muslim merchants, there was an emerging market for agricultural workers on the plantations.he era of European slave trading was about to begin...Source

1492

 

The Discovery of the New World

 

The voyage into the New World consisted of three ships; the Santa Maria, The Pinta and the Nina ,along with eighty eight men.Click here

1496

'Yuiza', Indian Cacique Chief.

 

The Conquest and subjugation of the people and Island of Hispanola

 

between the period of 1492-1496 the Spanish conquerers along with the free Black invaders that accompanied them began there interbreeding wiht the subjucated Indian population which marked the beginning of Hispaniola's Mulatto Race : the First Hispanics of the
Western hemisphere and the forerunners of the Creole Race

1502

thru

1510

 

The introduction of Slavery into the New World 1502:....

 

. Juan de Córdoba of Seville becomes the first merchant to send an African slave to the New World. Córdoba, like other merchants, is permitted by the Spanish authorities to send only one slave. Others send two or three...

Very Important...

22 January 1510: the start of the systematic transportation of African slaves to the New World: King Ferdinand of Spain authorises a shipment of 50 African slaves to be sent to Santo Domingo. .... The Establishment of the foundation of the Creole Race in the New World

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1510

thru

1523

1524

 

The beginning of French Colonization in the New World. click here

 

Giovanni da Verrazano ( French Exployer of Italian descent) the first recorded European to visit the East Coast of the present-day United States

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1530

Juan Pizzaro Conquers Peru.

...Close to 2000 slaves appeared on the armies of Pizarro and Almargo in their

1590

 

The Term Creole became a Racial connotation denoting those born in the New World

with at least one parent being born in the Old World..Most Generaly a Mixture of all Three Races

1720

 

The first recorded emancipation of an African slave in Louisiana

 

The first recorded emancipation of an African slave in Louisiana was that of Louis Congo, who obtained his freedom by accepting a position as colonial executioner in the early 1720s.

From the very beginning of its history, free people of color resided in New Orleans. During the Spanish era of colonial rule the New Orleans free black population grew rapidly. Many owned successful businesses or engaged in the professions and amassed substantial estates that included real, personal, and slave property. Many of New Orleans' shoemakers, cigar makers, ironworkers, furniture makers, and lithographers were free People of Color.

 

 
The Establishment of the Free Man of Color as a community

1729

Creoles fought in the FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

 

1742

MARIE THERESE COINCOIN was born in Isle Breville,

of slave parents from Gold Coast, AFRICA Died circa 1816.

 

 

 

1755-1791

 

Jacques V. OGE’, free Haitian Creole

, educated in France, organized military camp in U.S. and returned to Haiti to lead a slave revolt in 1791; was executed following his surrender. “Early American Writers”, Chapel Hill Univ., North Carolina Press (1935)

 

 

 

 

1767

 

Claude Pierre Thomas METOYER formed a union with Marie Therese COINCOIN

and created         
the first Creoles of Color in Isle Breville, La. (now described as Cane River) Nine children

 

1779

Creoles fought in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1791

Creoles fought in the HAITIAN REVOLUTION 

 

 

1793

 

FRANCE PROCLAIMED FREEDOM

for all living under the French flag. Louisiana was then under Spanish rule

 

 

 

 

1744

 

AUGUSTIN METOYER,

twin son of Claude Metoyer & Coincoin along with Louis his brother donated the land for the first CATHOLIC CHURCH on Isle Breville, La. (now known as Cane River MARIE THERESE COINCOIN was a very hardworking woman who with Claude Pierre’s help purchased the freedom of all of her children, exported cotton and jute to Africa and the West indies, amassed acres of property, owned slaves, all with the help of her sons.

 

1801

 

SPANISH LOUISIANA TERRITORY

was CEDED back to France from Spain (Treaty of San Ildefonso)

 

 

 

1803

 

FRENCH LOUISIANA TERRITORY

was SOLD to the United States on April 30th for $15,000,000, Rights. At that time the La. Territory comprised of more than 900,000 acres or l/3 of the United States

 

 

 

1793

 

FRANCE PROCLAIMED FREEDOM

for all living under the French flag. Louisiana was then under Spanish rule

 

 

 

1744

 

AUGUSTIN METOYER,

twin son of Claude Metoyer & Coincoin along with Louis his brother donated the land for the first CATHOLIC CHURCH on Isle Breville, La. (now known as Cane River).

 MARIE THERESE COINCOIN was a very hardworking woman who with Claude Pierre’s help purchased the freedom of all of her children, exported cotton and jute to Africa and the West indies, amassed acres of property, owned slaves, all with the help of her sons.

 

1801

 

SPANISH LOUISIANA TERRITORY

was CEDED back to France from Spain (Treaty of San Ildefonso)

 

 

 

1803

 

FRENCH LOUISIANA TERRITORY

was SOLD to the United States on April 30th for $15,000,000, Rights. At that time the La. Territory comprised of more than 900,000 acres or l/3 of the United States

 

1814
Creoles fought in the BATTLE of NEW ORLEANS
1816
 

Sr. HENRIETTE DeLILLE (DeLisle)

was born in New Orleans of wealthy Creole parentage

 

1825

EUGENE WARBOURG- 1825 - 1861

- Noted Sculptor, taught by Gabriel, a Frenchman under duress. Most outstanding works: “The Fisherman” and “The First Kiss”

 

 

 

 

1825

 

PAUL TRAVIGNE

was born; he was a teacher for 40 years in New Orleans, Editor in Chief ofNEWSPAPER L’UNION and LA TRIBUNE until 1869 and reported on contraversial issues of his time
LUCIEN MANSION (nicknamed Lolo Mansion - renown Poet.

His words published in LA TRIBUNE
and LE CRUSADER, Told of PERSECUTION of Creoles in 1855. He helped many escape the
prejudice financially to flee to Mexico, Northern U.S., France and the West Indies

 

 

1842

SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY

founded by Creole women - HENRIETTE DeLILLE (DeLisle) JULIETTE GAUDIN and JOSEPHINE CHARLES

1843

First CREOLE PUBLICATION

 

 

1850-1900

 

Rudolph Lucien Desdunes,

Noted Writer and Creole Historian - Author of “Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire” (Our People and Our History) from his book.--”Creoles of Color played an extraordinary role in both the cultural & political history of Louisiana - they excelled in all the major professions. slaves

 

   

 

 

1864

CREOLES PETITIONED

President LINCOLN for Civil Rights which were granted under
Civil Rights and Political Recognition in La. Legislature

1864

Creoles DENIED voting rights

1868

Creoles GAINED voting rights

, full equality and school integration

1872

 

Lt. Gov. P.B.S. PINCHBACK

became Governor of Louisiana (lasted only two months) His grandson, Jean TOOMER was noted author

 

1873

C.C. Antoine

became Lt. Governor of Louisiana

 

 

1885

 

LAFCADIO HEARN

noted author, wrote “Gombo Zhebes” Dictionary of Creole proverbs

 

 
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
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