Espècimens precambrians
To be sure, the Creole way of life became tenuous due to the rise of post-Reconstruction Black Code laws. During the antebellum years, many free Creoles had routinely married and lived among the enslaved yet retained their freedom. However, by the 1890s, intermarrying and social mixing with formerly enslaved people, which had been common among free Creoles prior to emancipation, could now, under Black Code laws and the rise of Jim Crow, put the social privileges of Creoles of color at risk. To distinguish their Creole children from the children of the formerly enslaved, a faction of Creoles of color attempted to protect their children by prohibiting them from socializing with downtrodden Blacks.
