🌿 Marie Thérèse Coincoin: The Woman Who Built Freedom on the Cane River 🌿 Long before Louisiana was part of the United States, before the word Creole was boxed into race, and before freedom was promised but rarely delivered, there lived a woman whose life quietly reshaped history. Her name was Marie Thérèse Coincoin. Born enslaved in 1742 in French colonial Louisiana, Coincoin entered the world with no legal rights, no land, and no promise of freedom. Her parents were enslaved Africans owned b