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Intermarriage and French Cultural Persistence in Late Spanish and Early American New Orleans

dc.contributor.authorLachance, Paul F.
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-26T18:35:24Z
dc.date.available2016-01-26T18:35:24Z
dc.date.issued1982-05
dc.description.abstractThe insularity of ethnic groups such as Acadians and French Canadians is often considered the key to their cultural survival. The French population of New Orleans, however, survived by allying themselves through marriage with immigrants from France and refugees from Saint Domingue. French remained the language of the majority of the white population until the 1830's, while non-white Creoles maintained their language and numbers in the face of an influx of English-speaking free blacks from other US states because of a natural population increase, and the arrival of refugees from Saint Domingue. La survivance d'une culture française à la Nouvelle-Orléans sous les dominations espagnole et américaine est examinée à la lumière des mariages catholiques dans cette ville entre 1790 et 1839. Loin d'être insulaires, les Créoles blancs étaient liés par un système particulier d'alliances exogames avec les immigrants de France et les réfugiés de Saint-Domingue. Grâce à ces apports, la langue française resta majoritaire dans la population blanche jusque dans les années 1830. D'autre part, l'apport des réfugiés de Saint-Domingue et l'accroissement naturel des Créoles de couleur permirent à ceux-ci de se maintenir face à la venue des Noirs libres de langue anglaise en provenance d'autres États américains. [en
dc.identifier.citationLachance, Paul. "Intermarriage and French Cultural Persistence in Late Spanish and Early American New Orleans." Histoire Sociale / Social History 15, no. 29 (1982): 47-82.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/38149/34547en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10393/34180
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectINTERMARRIAGEen
dc.subjectFRENCH - United Statesen
dc.subjectIMMIGRANTSen
dc.subjectREFUGEESen
dc.subjectCREOLESen
dc.subjectCULTURAL maintenanceen
dc.subjectLANGUAGE maintenanceen
dc.subjectETHNICITYen
dc.subjectLOUISIANAen
dc.subjectNEW ORLEANSen
dc.subjectHOMOGAMY (index of)en
dc.titleIntermarriage and French Cultural Persistence in Late Spanish and Early American New Orleansen
dc.typeArticleen

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