The Louisiana zoom layer (Fable's research, Nov 7, 2026; summary in agent-reports/fable-louisiana-summary.md; the CSV ww9_atlas_louisiana_layer.csv, 42 points, is not…

Year: 2026 · Places: Florida, Virginia, Louisiana, Ayiti, Europe

SUMMARYThe Louisiana zoom layer (Fable's research, Nov 7, 2026; summary in agent-reports/fable-louisiana-summary.md; the CSV ww9_atlas_louisiana_layer.csv, 42 points, is not yet received here). As reported by Fable (37 Record, 3 Disputed, 2 Open), to spot-check before print: (1) THE NATCHEZ IN AYITI, 1731–1791: Governor Périer's letters order the Great Sun, Tattooed Arm and about 450 Natchez sold out of the colony; a 2022 Ethnohistory study (69:3) traces them in Saint-Domingue parish and plantation records under other labels up to 1791, the year the revolution began (ties to P822's La Vénus). (2) O'REILLY 1769 AND THE NATCHITOCHES SUITS: Spain banned the Indian captive trade; Miró republished the ban in 1787 with a right to sue; in the freedom suits, holders argued the petitioner was "mulata, not india," relabeling to keep the sale, in the Spanish court record 150 years before Plecker. (3) THE PHIPPS FILE, 1770–1985: Louisiana traced a living woman to a captive named Margarita held in Opelousas in 1770 and used the 1/32 rule to mark her "colored"; the Legislature repealed the statute in 1983, and the 4th Circuit still upheld her certificate in 1985. (4) THE HOUMA: the BIA's 1994 proposed finding grants "verifiable Native American ancestry" and then denies on pre-1830 paperwork, the decades when parish registers wrote the Houma down as "mulatto" and schools called them "Sabines"; still pending under the 2015 rules. (5) ISTROUMA, the red stick: the Houma–Bayogoula boundary pole on Scott's Bluff that named Baton Rouge stood on ground now under Southern University, an HBCU. Baton Rouge was Spanish West Florida until 1810, outside the 1803 Purchase. HOLES (Fable's own): pull counts from Hall's Louisiana database (ibiblio.org/laslave) by ethnicity (Indian, Natchez, Chitimacha, Fox); read Miró's 1786 bando (the tignon law) as its own row; get page cites for the Chitimacha, Tunica-Biloxi and Adai "colored" listings; St. Malo's 1763 date is tradition, Disputed.

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