[1] Free men of color had served in the militia under French rule, and fought with the Americans during the United States' War of 1812 against the British.
It also promoted the cause of emancipation and the franchise for all enslaved African Americans in the state, where blacks made up half the population, and across the South.
[3] During the latter part of Reconstruction, Trévigne wrote Centennial History of the Louisiana Negro, which was published in the Louisianian in 1875-1876 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the American Revolution.
[1] He continued to oppose segregation, working for civil rights after the US Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which ruled that separate but equal accommodations were constitutional.
[1] The case had challenged state segregation restrictions on interstate railroads, as the Constitution provided for equal rights to all citizens.
Trévigne's aunt was Mother Henriette DeLille, the pioneering Black Catholic in New Orleans who founded the Sisters of the Holy Family.