A Place to Live in Peace : Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Evelyn L. Wilson
University Press of Mississippi
A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted.
In the last decade before the Civil War, tensions over slavery in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, led to the separation of free people of color from their white counterparts. But until the 1850s, free people of color had lived and thrived there.