Shake Your Tree

Shaking Your Family Tree Might Uncover Black Slave And Plantation Owners. White People Might Find Their Black Relatives. Black People Might Discover That Black Free Men Fought Gallantly As Officers And Gentlemen In The Confederate Army. Marie Claire Decuir’S Most Unusual Precise Memory Of An Excellent Story Teller Unfolds The Lives Of Immediate And Extended Family Members As Racially Mixed Slave Owners Of Vast And Wealth Producing Plantations. The Following Are Just A Few Of The Families That She Remembers And Relates Their Stories: Ricard La Cour Porche Severin De Beaulieu Mayeux Desnoyers Cadet Tounoir Labbe Provost Patin Caramouche Bouligny Fazende Charbonnet Dreux Bernoudy Pierre Riche Trepagnier Chauvin Langlois Dubuclet Gray Fortin Pollard Beauvais Deslonde Honore Destrehan Verret Solomon Robert Allain Morgan Poree Dugue Reuter Daigle Lafitte Lejeune Broyard Barre Gaspard Guillot Higbee Zeringue Roy Dejean Duval De Charleville De Lery De La Freniere De Montpelier Barras Hopkins Trudeau Purnell Rabalais Bordelon Gajean Walters Duperon Jeansommes.