Voices of the Enslaved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices of the Enslaved write by Sophie White. This book was released on 2019-10-25. Voices of the Enslaved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.
Voices from Louisiana
Voices from Louisiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from Louisiana write by Ann Brewster Dobie. This book was released on 2018-03-21. Voices from Louisiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Voices from Louisiana provides thoughtful, timely profiles of some of the state’s most highly regarded and popular contemporary authors. Readers interested in Louisiana’s rich literary tradition will appreciate these evocative essays on writers whose works emanate from the cultures and landscapes of the Gulf South. Ann Brewster Dobie explores the works of eleven well-known authors and concludes with a look at several emerging talents. These writers work in a broad range of genres, from coming-of-age stories and historical narratives that recover the voices of silenced and oppressed peoples, to crime thrillers set in New Iberia and New Orleans, to poetic invocations of the natural world and narratives capturing the realities of working-class lives. Whether native to the state or transplants, these writers produce works that reflect the vibrant culture that defines the intricate literary landscape of the Pelican State. Dobie highlights the careers of Darrell Bourque, James Lee Burke, Ernest Gaines, Tim Gautreaux, Shirley Ann Grau, Greg Guirard, William Joyce, Julie Kane, Tom Piazza, Martha Serpas, and James Wilcox. Newcomers also profiled include Wiley Cash, Ashley Mace Havird, Anne L. Simon, Katy Simpson Smith, Ashley Weaver, Steve Weddle, and Ken Wheaton.
Louisiana Voices Audio Book Production Program
Louisiana Voices Audio Book Production Program - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louisiana Voices Audio Book Production Program write by State Library of Louisiana. Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Louisiana Voices. This book was released on 2005. Louisiana Voices Audio Book Production Program available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Voices from an Early American Convent
Voices from an Early American Convent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from an Early American Convent write by Emily Clark. This book was released on 2009-04. Voices from an Early American Convent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable for founding a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony's military hospital, and sustained an aggressive program of catechesis among the enslaved population of colonial Louisiana. In Voices from an Early American Convent, Emily Clark extends the boundaries of early American women's history through the firsthand accounts of these remarkable French missionaries, in particular Marie Madeleine Hachard. These fascinating documents reveal women of determination, courage, and conviction, who chose to forgo the traditional European roles of wife and mother, embrace lives of public service, and forge a community among the diverse inhabitants -- enslaved and free -- who occupied early New Orleans.
Voices from Colonial America: Louisiana, 1682-1803 (Direct Mail Edition)
Voices from Colonial America: Louisiana, 1682-1803 (Direct Mail Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices from Colonial America: Louisiana, 1682-1803 (Direct Mail Edition) write by Richard Worth. This book was released on 2005. Voices from Colonial America: Louisiana, 1682-1803 (Direct Mail Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a comprehensive guide to the history of Louisiana, its diverse people, and the impact the purchase of this state from the French has had on the United States, complete with period maps and first-person accounts.
