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| A group of people who settle in a distant land but who still keep their ties to their native land. |
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| A system that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. |
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| A group existing during the French colonial period that was in chrage of judicial matters and wwwas presided over by the commissary commissioner. |
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| CoA parcel of land given to the directors of the Company of the West under the condition that they bring settlers to the colony. |
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| The collapse at the French investment company, the Compant of the West. |
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| A person who is bound to a life of service to others and who is considered property. |
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| A set of laws governing the conduct of the slaves during the French colonial period. |
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| Young women who came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers; the young women brought their trousseaus in a casket, or barrel-like chest. |
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