If you enjoyed Kimberley Coleman’s lecture “Free and Non-White: Les Gens de Coleur Libres in Antebellum New Orleans,” check out her list for further reading and references:
Title: Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
Author: David Gasper
Title: Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia and Louisiana
Author (s): Alejandro de la Fuente & Ariela J. Gross
Title: Africans in Colonial Louisiana
Author: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Title: Bounded Lives, Bounded Places
Author: Kimberly S. Hanger
Title: The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War
Author: James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
Title: Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond
Author: Jennifer Johnson
Title: Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans, 1846 -1862
Author: Judith K. Schafer
Title: Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Author: Judith K. Schafer
Title: Race & Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764- 1960
Author: Walter C. Stern
Title: The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Author: Ned. Sublette
Title: The Free Negro in the New Orleans Economy, 1850-1860
Author: Robert Reinders