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Description of  Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence (Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices)

The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the citys most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libresfree people of colorin a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Read more