[[return]]6. French, "Historical Collections of Louisiana," Part III, p. 42.
[[return]]7. Gayarré, "History of Louisiana," I, 102.
[[return]]8. Gayarré, "History of Louisiana," I, 242, 454.
[[return]]9. Ibid., I, 366.
[[return]]10. Ibid., I, 365-366.
[[return]]11. In 1900 a writer in Pearson's Magazine in discussing race mixture in early Louisiana made some startling statements as to the results of the miscegenation of these stocks during the colonial period.
[[return]]12. Code Noir, 1724.
[[return]]13. Code Noir.
[[return]]14. Lebeau, De la condition des gens de couleur libres sous l'ancien régime, p. 49.
[[return]]15. Ibid., 49.