Aware of their rights Creoles of color in Mobile and Baldwin counties petitioned Mobile authorities to maintain their “privileged position” in the community after the Civil War. [The quoted phrase is from Michael Fitzgerald, Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002): 52.] Have you checked records in university and museum archives, especially in areas your ancestors lived?
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