Fascinating (and sad) bits of history, thank you! I'd be interested to know a bit more about social and legal interactions (especially with regards to anti-Black racism) between Creole people and the forcibly displaced Acadians (Cajuns) from French-speaking Canada.

The modern Quebecois, French speakers in Quebec, learn in school that Acadians were oppressed after they fled to Louisiana, treated as second-class citizens due to their rural roots and relative lack of education compared to the more wealthy French and Spanish colonizers who were already there when they arrived. Stories are also taught about starvation and disease that decimated the Cajuns on their journey to Louisiana.

Do you know if the Cajuns tended to intermarry with Creole people and/or form mixed communities? Or did the populations stay quite separate?