Martin Parish home. In the late 1700s. 3.000 French Canadians fled British persecution. finding refuge in south Louisiana. The birth of Acadiana can be attributed to the settling of 200 of these refugees in present day St. Martinville in 1765. There. the Acadians were introduced to enslaved Africans tending cattle for French landowners. Refugees fleeing the French Revolution as well as Spanishspeaking Malagans also arrived in the settlement. Creole families from New Orleans and Mobile along with AngloAmericans soon followed. German wheat farmers trying to find a place in the rice industry. along with Italian merchants and Irish workers building the railroads began to call St.
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