Marginality and identity

Pierre Letoyant (1744-1816) was born in France and traveled to Louisiana as a soldier. In 1767 he bought a slave girl from an official at Fort Indianola and took her as his common-law wife. They were the parents of nine children. Because of the mixture of French blood and African blood, they were known as Creoles. There are approximately ten thousand descendants of Pierre, most of whom still live in Louisiana.