1. Africans in Colonial Louisiana
Gwendolyn Hall is the author of the book "Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century." ... In the next chapter, Hall begins to describe the Louisiana Creole culture. ... This chapter discusses the Afro-Creole culture that dominated lower Louisiana and even inflected itself upon the poor white populace to where they would identify as Creole. Hall explains that the reason why the impoverished white class attached itself to the Creole identifier and language, which is a derivative of the pidgin language that was created in Senegambia during t...
- Word Count: 1683
- Approx Pages: 7
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate