- Creole peoples - Wikipedia
Creoles are largely Roman Catholic and influenced by traditional French and Spanish culture left from the first Colonial Period, officially beginning in 1722 with the arrival of the Ursuline Nuns, who were preceded by another order, the sisters of the Sacred Heart, with whom they lived until their first convent could be built with monies from
- Creole | History, Culture Language | Britannica
The Creoles led the revolutions that effected the expulsion of the colonial regime from Spanish America in the early 19th century After independence in Mexico, Peru, and elsewhere, Creoles entered the ruling class
- Creoles - History, The first creoles in america . . .
Unlike many other ethnic groups in the United States, Creoles did not migrate from a native country The term Creole was first used in the sixteenth century to identify descendants of French, Spanish, or Portuguese settlers living in the West Indies and Latin America
- Creole History and Culture - Cane River Creole National . . .
As French, Spanish, African, and Native American cultures interacted and exchanged in Louisiana, it led to the development of a distinctive culture: Creole
- What’s the Difference Between Cajun and Creole—Or Is There One?
For Cajuns were—and are—a subset of Louisiana Creoles Today, common understanding holds that Cajuns are white and Creoles are Black or mixed race; Creoles are from New Orleans, while Cajuns populate the rural parts of South Louisiana
- Creoles - Encyclopedia. com
The Creoles' image of economic independence is rooted in the socioeconomic conditions of free people of color before the Civil War Creoles of color were slave owners, land owners, and skilled laborers Of the 1,834 free Negro heads of households in New Orleans in 1830, 752 owned at least one slave
- Definition and Examples of Creoles - ThoughtCo
In linguistics, a creole is a type of natural language that developed historically from a pidgin and came into existence at a fairly precise point in time English creoles are spoken by some of the people in Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and parts of Georgia and South Carolina
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