Four studies of the French Antillean migration to the lower Mississippi valley are gathered here behind an editorial introduction that reports original research of its own. Thomas Fiehrer sets out Louisiana's older Caribbean connections, Gabriel Debien follows the refugees through eastern Cuba between 1793 and 1815, Debien and Rene Le Gardeur cover the smaller movement into Louisiana before 1804, and Paul Lachance analyses the 1809 arrivals who roughly doubled the size of New Orleans within three months. Brasseaux and Conrad turn to Catholic parish registers and the 1810 and 1820 censuses to establish where the newcomers actually settled. Between seventy eight and ninety three percent stayed in the city, and only eighty seven appear in rural church records for 1803 to 1830. Those who did move inland married Louisiana Creoles, Acadians and French immigrants, and most stayed poor, with eighty seven percent holding under five hundred dollars in real property, though a few reached judgeships and legislative seats.