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Jules Bayonne, a young, former domestic servant, a free person of color, in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, had a friend, also a former employee of the Parlange Family in 1872, when the two, ambitious men, embarked on a partnership purchase of approximately sixty-six acres of farmland.