What is Free people of color?
{{nosources|date=February 2022}} [[File:Agostino Brunias Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca 1764-1796 crop1.jpg|thumb|Agostino Brunias Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca 1764-1796]] When talking about the colonies in the [[New World]], the term '''free people of color''' was used for people who had both [[Europe|European]], and [[Africa|African]], and sometimes [[native American]] parents, but who were not [[slavery|slaves]]. This term applied to many people in [[Louisiana]] (which was known as 'New France' at the time), and the [[Caribbean|Caribbean islands]]. In the [[colonies]], these people were classified in various ways, usually depending on what they looked like. The term became popular in the late 17th century. In the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen colonies]], these people were sometimes called '''free negroes'''. The term did not apply to freed slaves, which were usually known as ''affranchi'', in French. {{African American topics}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:African-American history]] [[Category:Colonialism]] [[Category:Slavery]]