The Indianapolis leader

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Domingo, a great number of Creoles ond

freemen of eoler, took up their residence in

Louisiana, partially in ew Olcaas. Many

of them were men of culture, wealth and in

tellectual ability, a majority of them were

ti war

Which Lee and Jackson Fought.

owners of extensive properties in that Ieland,

and had been educated in the most eminent

cholastic institutions of Frinc-i. The

French was their native tongue and their

early associations had been among that

Irmly magnanimous people, who

are universally admired and esteemed for

its total exemption from those unwarrant

able prejudices which tarnish the otherwise

fair escutcheon of tho American people..

Prior to the Dominican emigration, the sub

ject of education among the free colored

people of Louisiana had been much neglect

ed, and it was somewhat humiliating to

their native pridoto find themselves objects

of contempt by these polished emigrant?,

whose wealth and influence at once opened

to them the hitherto inaccessible privileges

of social intercourse with the French ele

ment of th? province.

Instead, however, of yielding to the sag

gestions of envy and jealousy,

our own Creole population

promptly inaugurated a system of education

for their children which, in a short time

manitestcd a most marked improvement in

the moral aud mental status of both parent

and child, and iu due time many of their

own sons were pent to France to be edu

cated, whence they returned to assume poai

tiou of honor and emolument in their na

tive provir.co, and hence in the year 1.79c,

there were no less than 2,000 colored Cre

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The Indianapolis leader. (1880). Indianapolis, Ind., 1880-11-06. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84027490/1880-11-06/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Indianapolis leader, 1880-11-06.