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Marie Thérèse ditte Coincoin, (1742-1816) was a free médecine, planter, and business woman in Natchitoches Parish. She was freed from slavery by her master Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, with whom she had ten children. Her descendants established a community along the Cane River. Look her up! Portrait by Jules Lion, a French free-man-of-color living in New Orleans. (More portraits at link by another free-man-of-color in that era, Julien Hudson) Creole People, Marie Therese, Louisiana Creole, French Creole, African Diaspora, African History, African American History, Black American, History Facts

Self Portrait Julien Hudson (1811-1844) circa 1839 Oil on canvas His Self Portrait shows him as a fashionable young man in a black frock coat and patterned red waistcoat. A landscape serves as the background. Historian Alice Dunbar-Nelson wrote: "There is no state in the Union like Louisiana, hardly any spot of like size on the globe, where the man of color has lived so intensely, made so much progress, been of such historical importance and yet about whom so comparatively little is known…

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