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They Called Them “Maroons”

August 20, 2026 by The Kinstructure Company

Genealogy Gems title card reading They Called Them Maroons, a four-step method for reading 19th-century runaway notices as genealogical evidence, with The Kinstructure Co. logo.

An 1854 Opelousas Courier notice printed in French and English calls the same men runaways and negres marrons. A four-step method for reading runaway notices as genealogical evidence.

Filed Under: Enslaved Ancestry, Genealogy Gems, Louisiana Heritage, Research Methodology Tagged With: bilingual records, French language records, Louisiana Genealogy, maroons, marronage, newspaper research, Opelousas, research methodology, slavery records, St. Landry Parish

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