in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European...

Creoles of color became identified as a distinct ethnic group, Gens de couleur libres (free persons of color), and were granted their free-person status...

the African-American ethnic group. In the twentieth century, the gens de couleur libres in Louisiana became increasingly associated with the term Creole...

Petits blancs shared the same societal level as gens de couleur libres. The Gens de couleur libres class was made up of affranchis (ex-slaves), free-born...

Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres is a live in-studio album by jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts. It was the first of their twelve-chapter Coin...

associate Creoles specifically with those people descended from the gens de couleur libres (free people of color), others cling to the word's original definition...

Africans. In Saint-Domingue, roughly half of the affranchis were gens de couleur libres (free people of color; Mulatto) and the other half African slaves...

Revolution, both whites and free people of color (affranchis or gens de couleur libres), arrived in New Orleans; a number brought their slaves with them...

children became the nucleus of the class of free people of color or gens de couleur libres in Louisiana and Saint-Domingue. After the Haitian Revolution in...

is about the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War. The gens de couleur libres were the descendants...