Rachel of Old Louisiana
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807120162
ISBN13:9780807120163
Release Date:February 1995
Publisher:LSU Press
Length:140 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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A Touching History from the past
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
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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