<p>Various groups that settled in Louisiana Colony</p><p>French Settlers </p><p>- members of Iberville’s expedition – all men</p><p> o officers, soldiers, sailors, Canadians</p><p> o laborers and cabin boys</p><p>- laborers who could make maps or draw plans for the cities J. Law planned to build</p><p>- others came to work the land </p><p> o they were offered concessions (grants of land)</p><p> o these settlers offered contracts to laborers who were called engages (indentured servants) – these engages agreed to work for a certain # of years in exchange for a passage to LA.</p><p>- By 1708 there were 28 women and 25 children</p><p>- Prisoners were sent to LA – they were called forcats – this was not a favorable practice.</p><p>- Ursuline Nuns were talked into moving to LA to work in hospitals and educate young girls.</p><p>- Young marriageable girls were sent by the company – they were given a small trunk filled with clothing and the kinds of goods needed to establish a household. The trunks were called cassetts or caskets – the girls were then referred to as the ‘Casket girls’.</p><p>Native Americans</p><p>- they were bought or captured and used as enslaved workers</p><p>Hunters & Fur Trappers</p><p>- most were not counted as settlers by the French – they were called Coureurs de bois or runners of the woods</p><p>- the men who were willing to register with the French were called voyageurs</p><p>Germans</p><p>- 700 Germans fled to LA to escape war in their country (Germany)</p><p>- they settled on the western end of Lake Pontchartrain in an area named the German Coast</p><p>- they were farmers that supplied N.O. during the city’s early years</p><p>Africans</p><p>- many from the west coast of Africa where they were captured and sold into slavery</p><p>- they brought with them agricultural skills</p><p>- because of their knowledge of growing rice – rice became an important food source in the colony</p><p>- Bienville established the Code Noir (Black Code) o set of laws that regulated the behavior of slaves and laid out rules for their masters</p><p>Caribbean Islanders</p><p>- pirates that joined the expedition while it was in the Caribbean resupplying</p><p>Creole’s</p><p>- outnumbered the French-born colonist by the time France lost control of the colony</p><p>- the Creole’s had a French cultural identity so they remained loyal to France when Spain took control of the colony</p>