Portrait Of A Creole Woman Analysis

The Creoles still spoke French and continued their customs. Many free people of color also spoke French and were part of Creole culture. Another group of Creoles came to Louisiana after the slave revolution in Haiti. More French Speaking people left France because of the French Revolution. Irish immigrants came during the colonial period, but the largest number came after the 1830s because of poverty and famine in Ireland. Many pioneers in North Louisiana lived a frontier lifestyle. Acadians continued their traditional lifestyles of farming and fishing. The Native Americans had almost disappeared; the last large group, the Caddo, had been pushed out. Despite being treated as property, slaves developed a culture within those restrictions.
Charles Colson painted this “Portrait of a Creole Woman.” One attraction of the Old State Capitol’s interior is a large iron spiral stairway crowned by this beautiful stained glass dome. The building was one of the first in the South to be constructed of brick on a cast iron