What Makes Our Culture so much different , Here in America, Is that Many people In New Orleans were not and had never been Slaves...These Free People were property owners who were highly educated and were some of the wealthiest People in Ante Bellum Louisiana during a time when most people in America were in Bondage...In Fact, They were some of the wealthiest People in America.. the Let's face it The Louisiana Creole is different from His African American cousin in many ways...
His Language, Origins and History as a people pre-date the Slave trade.....Click onto Our Origins links and see How We came to be......Creole Roots go way back to the African Continent and then some..We are not alone either...Creole Communities are global in nature...Not only can Creoles be found in Louisiana but in the islands of the Caribbean , North ans south America and many Islands off the Coast of Africa and even on the continent of Africa..If You will recall not all Creoles Have African descent many are European White and of various ethnic and Racial Origins