A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

Marianne Celeste Dragon Dimitry, a wealthy Creole land owner, posed for Louisiana’s first significant portrait painter, José ...

who described the royal as being born looking like a “mulatto” or mixed-race person. The diplomat, Baron Stockmar, was born 43 years after Queen Charlotte’s birth and would have had no ...

In 1685, a law in the Cape Colony forbade marriage between Europeans and Africans, although it did permit Europeans and mixed race people to marry. Back in the 1850's, the missionary and traveler ...