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Rachel of Old Louisiana
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by Avery O. Craven
Sales Rank: 1884971
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List Price: $16.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 140 pages
Published by: Louisiana State University Press April 1, 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807120162
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807120163
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
Weighs: 6.1 ounces
From Library Journal
Craven, the author of numerous volumes on Southern history, here tells the story of Rachel O'Connor, who managed a plantation in the West Feliciana Parish in the 1800s. Gleaned from primary sources, including several hundred of O'Connor's letters, this is not only a portrait of Rachel but of a way of life and of Louisiana itself.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
Rachel O'Connor was an extraordinary woman. For nearly fifty years (from 1797 to 1846), she lived on a plantation near Bayou Sara in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. And for twenty-five of those years, after the death of her husband, she managed the plantation alone. Although they had, as she said, "begun poor," at the time of her death she owned about a thousand acres and seventy-five slaves. Not a biography in the conventional sense, Avery O. Craven's charming little book is rather the story of Rachel and the Louisiana in which she lived. Based largely on several hundred of her letters, it tells of her day-to-day activities, her relationships with slaves and overseers, her successes and failures with crops, as well as her health and legal problems. By focusing on the life of one woman, Craven brings to light the thoughts, emotions, and attitudes of Louisianians (and other southerners) during this period. Rachel of Old Louisiana is a significant addition to the literature on the Old South.
Reader Reviews
Can you put a price on a human life? Slave owners did, and you can read the inventory record of a plantation. The story is an interesting one, told many times before. The reason this little book stays in my mind is that it does not sugar-coat slavery. It's a real lesson in history.
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