Terms

Colony is a group of people who settle in a distant land but who still keep their native land.

Proprietorship is a system that gave an individual a charter to operate a colony as a business.

Superior Council a group existing during the French colonial period that was in charge of judicial matter and was presided over by the commissary commissioner.

Land grant is a parcel of land given to the directors of the Company of the West under the condition that they bring settlers to the colony.

Mississippi Bubble is the collapse of the French investment company, the Company of the West.

Slave is a person who is bound to a life of service to others and who is considered property.

Plantation is a large estate or farm.

Code Noir is a set of laws governing the conduct of the slaves during the French colonial period.

Casket girls are young women who came to Louisiana in 1728 to become wives of the settlers; the young women brought their trousseaus in a casket, or barrel-like chest.