My dear father [...] you can come here boldly with my dear mother and all the other Acadian families. They will always be better off than in France. There are neither duties nor taxes to pay and the more one works, the more one earns without doing harm to anyone.
—Jean-Baptiste Semer, 1766[8]
That would be news to my mother and her ancestors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun