cajun people for a long time were in that grey area of being almost white people but not quite, kind of like Italians and Irish were. In fact one of my friends from high school had his grandparents arrested in the 1950s under segregation laws because the wife was cajun and the husband was italian.
One of my ancestors was a cajun and was also arrested and thrown out of new orleans for violating some kind of segregation ordinance regarding gambling or something.
I guess cajun people are fully considered white now, but that wasn't the case for a while, like a bunch of them got sold into slavery when England took over French Canada
Really? I did not know that, I always thought that it was Creoles that got into such trouble since they were kinda not fitting into the race mold of the time. I guess the English really saw them as a threat then.
cajun people for a long time were in that grey area of being almost white people but not quite, kind of like Italians and Irish were. In fact one of my friends from high school had his grandparents arrested in the 1950s under segregation laws because the wife was cajun and the husband was italian.
One of my ancestors was a cajun and was also arrested and thrown out of new orleans for violating some kind of segregation ordinance regarding gambling or something.
I guess cajun people are fully considered white now, but that wasn't the case for a while, like a bunch of them got sold into slavery when England took over French Canada
Really? I did not know that, I always thought that it was Creoles that got into such trouble since they were kinda not fitting into the race mold of the time. I guess the English really saw them as a threat then.