FREE PEOPLE of COLOR (Les Gens de Couleur Libres)
As we enter February and the 28 days dedicated to Black History, I’d like to talk about a forgotten history of mixed race culture(s)Les Gens de Couleur Libres , which is a Creole French patois for The Free People of Color.
Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants, oil painting by Agostino Brunias, Dominica, c. 1764–1796.
