Africans in colonial Louisiana : the development of Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth
century / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, 1992
LCNA, 1992
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Information trouvée : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (June 27, 1929 – August 29, 2022) was an American historian who
focused on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana (United
States), Africa, and the African Diaspora in the Americas. Discovering extensive
French and Spanish colonial documents related to the slave trade in Louisiana, she
wrote Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the
Eighteenth Century (1992), studied the ethnic origins of enslaved Africans brought
to Louisiana, as well as the process of creolization, which created new cultures.
She changed the way in which several related disciplines are researched and taught,
adding to scholarly understanding of the diverse origins of cultures throughout the
Americas.