Originally Posted By: helenwheels
LaL-

I looked through the site at your link, but the question I can't find the answer to is whose slaves were the Cajuns that were freed by the confederacy mentioned in your post. Who owned them when the CSA free them? France?


Yea it only goes up to 1785 slightly under a hundred years before the war. A lot of people don't know this but there were Indians that live in the swamps of Louisiana like the Chitimatcha, Tunica, Choctaw etc. that felt the Cajuns were invading on their territory. The plantation owners were more around New Orleans and north towards Mississippi. The Indians would do raids all over the south in Cajun Country and capture the women and kids and sale them into slavery. This was mostly all undeveloped land where the plantations were so the wealthy were buying slaves of all color.

It's less known throughout history but it numbered in the thousands that were sold back into slavery over the next 100 years until the Civil War. When that happened the confederacy told all slaves that fought would be granted their freedom. Kinda like in the American Revolution when the British told the african american slaves if they fought they would be freed.


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