Download or read book Cane River written by Lalita Tademy and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. As she peels back layers of racial and cultural attitudes, Tademy paints a remarkable picture of rural Louisiana and the resilient spirit of one unforgettable family. There is Elisabeth, who bears both a proud legacy and the yoke of bondage... her youngest daughter, Suzette, who is the first to discover the promise-and heartbreak-of freedom... Suzette's strong-willed daughter Philomene, who uses a determination born of tragedy to reunite her family and gain unheard-of economic independence... and Emily, Philomene's spirited daughter, who fights to secure her children's just due and preserve their dignity and future. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Cane River presents a slice of American history never before seen in such piercing and personal detail.

Download or read book Cane River s Louisiana Living written by and published by Favorite Recipes Press (FRP). This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in Spanish and French influences, Natchitoches offers a warm welcome and an array of historical sites, exciting festivals, and delicious foods. A walking tour map and colorful photos accent the many delicious recipes that help make Natchitoches unique and flavorful Louisiana Living is a culinary tour no one can resist Proceeds will be used for the educational, civic, historical, and cultural improvement of the city of Natchitoches and the community.

Download or read book The Forgotten People written by Gary B. Mills and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly capable, Cane River's Creoles of color enjoyed economic privileges but led politically constricted lives. Like their white neighbors, they publicly supported the Confederacy and suffered the same depredations of war and political and social uncertainties of Reconstruction. Unlike white Creoles, however, they did not recover amid cycles of Redeemer and Jim Crow politics. First published in 1977, The Forgotten People offers a socioeconomic history of this widely publicized but also highly romanticized community -- a minority group that fit no stereotypes, refused all outside labels, and still struggles to explain its identity in a world mystified by Creolism. Now revised and significantly expanded, this time-honored work revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This new edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves. The Forgotten People corrects misassumptions about the origin of key properties in the Cane River National Heritage Area and demonstrates how historians reconstruct the lives of the enslaved, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised.

Download or read book Cane River Cuisine written by Service League of Natchitoches, Inc and published by Wimmer Cookbooks. This book was released on 1974 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first from the Service League of Natchitoches, Cane River Cuisine offers over 800 recipes handed down through the Creole, Indian, French and Spanish generations with beautiful photography that set the trend for community cookbooks. This is a must for every Southern foodie.

Download or read book Isle of Canes written by Elizabeth Shown Mills and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isle of Canes is the epic account of a multi-racial family in Louisiana that, over four generations and more than 150 years, rose from the chains of slavery to rule the Isle of Canes. Historically accurate, this first novel by eminent genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills is a gripping tale of cultural and racial conflict, economic triumph and ruin, and unyielding family pride told against the backdrop of colonial and antebellum Louisiana.

Download or read book Cane River Rebels written by Randy Decuir and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents———————————————————————---Cover photos:Grand Encore during the Civil WarNatchitoches Parish Confederates in uniform: Lt. William Beldon Champlin, 2nd Louisiana Cavalry Capt. William Fuller, Infantry, Killed at Mansfield Sgt. John Coleman Sibley, 2nd Louisiana Cavalry———————————————————————---SECTION I Short history of Civil War in Natchitoches 1862 Parish script printed by Police Jury, Clothing needed 1863 Letter of Confederate officer 1864 Grand Ecore - Harper's Weekly 1864 19th U. S. Infantry crossing Cane River 1864 Yankees at the Bullard Mansion 1864 Gunboats on Red River———————————————————————---SECTION II Military Units of Natchitoches Parish Pelican Rangers No. 2 Pelican Rangers No. 1 Lecompte Guards Marion Rangers Natchitoches Rangers Isle Breville Rangers Augustin Guards Monet's Guards———————————————————————---SECTION III Portraits of Natchitoches SoldiersADAMS, Levi, Texas CavalryALBRITTON, Howell, 5th Louisiana CavalryBILES, Joseph, Cloutierville, 1st Louisiana CavalryBOOTH, James B. 28th Louisiana InfantryBOSSIER, Francois Paul, II, 3rd LA Inf.BROWN, Tally Douglas, 2nd Louisiana CavalryBROWNE, James Newton, 2nd Louisiana InfantryBOSSIER, J. J. 2nd CavalryCASPARI, Leopold, 3rd La Inf., Co. GCLARK, Elijah, Jr., Consolidated Crescent, Natchitoches.CLEGG, Judge Ransom HarrisonCLOUD, Noah, Jr.CROW, Donald MacCUNNINGHAM, Milton Joseph, Co. A, 2nd Louisiana InfantryDEBLIEUX, E. V., 3rd Louisiana InfantryDeRUSSY, Lewis, 2nd LA Infantry; builder of Fort DeRussyDOWDEN, Stephen Grant, Co. D, Consolidated CrescentDOWDEN, Wilburn Wesley, Co. D, Consolidated CrescentFULLER, William, Capt., Killed at MansfieldGOLDEN, John Marion, Georgia Light ArtilleryHARDIMAN, John Thomas, Co. G, 26th Louisiana InfantryHUGHES, Robert F., Consolidated CrescentHYAMS, Henry Michael, Texas Cavalry & 3rd Louisiana InfantryHYAMS, Samuel Myers, Lt. Col, 3rd Louisiana InfantryINGRAM, John Hezekiah, 2nd Louisiana CavalryKEITH, John Consolidated CrescentKAHN, Isaac, Consolidated CrescentKNOTT, Andrew Jackson, 2nd CavalryLAMBERT, James David, 3rd LA InfantryLEVY, William Madison, Judge, Col, 2nd LA Infantry, AdjutantLEWING, Hosey, 2nd Louisiana CavalryLEWING, Wilson Greenbury, 2nd Louisiana CavalryMcCOOK, Jasper Baker Woodruff, Alabama Cavalry MONTGOMERY, Vincent, 17th LA Inf., Sheriff of SabineMORROW, William Penn, Lt., Capt. Benjamin's CavalryMURPHY, Robert Calvert (1842-1936), MURRAY, Andrew Jackson, Pvt., Consolidated CrescentNASH, Christopher Columbus, Consolidated CrescentNICARD, Christopher Columbus, Pvt., Consolidated CrescentPEARRE, Alexander Williamm 2nd Louisiana CavalryPIERSON, David, Captain, 3rd Louisiana InfantryPOISSOT, Benoit Bertil (1844-1911), 26th LA CavalryPOWELL, William Henry, 9th Louisiana InfantryPRESLEY, Crawford Alexander, 14th CavalryPRUDHOMME, Jacques Alphonse 2nd CavalryPRUDHOMME, Jacques 3rd InfRACHAL, Darius Ciriaque, Pvt., 5th Texas InfantryROGERS, Jonathan, 2nd LA CavalrySIBLEY, Samuel Thornton (1836-1929), 17th La Inf.STEWART, Willim David, 27th Louisiana Vol. InfantrySTRONG, William Allyn, St. Maurice, 2nd LA CavalrySULLIVAN, John HarrisonTHOMAS, John , Pvt., Consolidated CrescentVALLERY, James, Co. G, 28th or 27th see css headstoneWRIGHT, Christopher Columbus, Texas Confederate———————————————————————---SECTION IV Roll Call of Natchitoches ConfederatesOver 2000 names mostly compiled by Andrew Booth in his monumental multi volume series which list Louisiana soldiers in the Confederacy.

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Download or read book Red River Campaign written by Ludwell H. Johnson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958. Johnson tells the story of the Red River Campaign, which took place in Louisiana and Arkansas in the spring of 1864. In response to the demands of Union Free-Soil interests in Texas, and the need of New England textile manufacturers for cotton, an expedition was undertaken to open the way to Texas. General Nathaniel Banks conducted a combined military and naval expedition up the Red River in a campaign that lasted only from March 23 to May 20, 1864, but was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The campaign ended in Banks's defeat at the Battle of Sabine Crossroads. This book illustrates how military operations during the Civil War were often intimately interwoven with political, economic, and ideological factors, which frequently determined the time and place of a Union offensive. The author describes the desires and opinions of the public, the press, and Lincoln's administration regarding an invasion of Texas, as well as the motivation of the officers themselves, such as Banks's aspiration for the 1864 presidential nomination. Johnson relates vividly the various battles of the expedition and the problems posed by mustering undisciplined troops, by having to procure supplies in poor country with insufficient supply lines, and by contending with bad weather and rough terrain.

Download or read book Children of Strangers written by Lyle Saxon and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1937 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud mulatto colony ostracizes girl, who sacrifices everything for her white child.

Download or read book Natchitoches written by Joyous Coast Foundation and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled between stately live oaks, magnolia trees, and Cane River is the beautiful old town of Natchitoches. The oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase and the third-oldest town in the United States, Natchitoches was founded in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, who was sent by the French governor to establish a colony in Louisiana. In Images of America: Natchitoches see the town as the backdrop for such movies as Steel Magnolias and view rare vintage photographs of plantation homes, the laying of bricks on Front Street, and the development of Northwestern State University.

Download or read book The Prudhomme Family Cookbook written by Paul Prudhomme and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super-bestselling Chef Paul Prudhomme and his 11 brothers and sisters remember—and cook—the greatest native cooking in the history of America, garnered from their early years in the deep south of Louisiana. The Prudhomme Family Cookbook brings the old days of Cajun cooking right into your home.

Download or read book The Book of Lost Friends written by Lisa Wingate and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives. “An absorbing historical . . . enthralling.”—Library Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

Download or read book Fifty Years in Chains written by Charles Ball and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced to suffer inhumane conditions. He recounts the qualities of his various masters and the ways in which his fortune depended on their temperament. As slave narrative scholar William L. Andrews has noted, Ball's oft-repeated narrative directly influenced the manner and matter of later fugitive slave.

Download or read book Cane River Bohemia written by Patricia Austin Becker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, was home to many notable women, including freedwoman and entrepreneur Marie Thérèse Coincoin and artist Clementine Hunter. Among that influential group, Cammie Henry, the mistress of Melrose during the first half of the twentieth century, stands out as someone who influenced the plantation’s legacy in dramatic and memorable ways. In Cane River Bohemia, Patricia Austin Becker provides a vivid biography of this fascinating figure. Born on a sugar plantation in south Louisiana in 1871, Cammie Henry moved with her husband to Melrose in 1899 and immediately set to work restoring the property. She extended her impact on Melrose, the surrounding community, and the region when she began to host an artist colony in the 1920s and 1930s. Writers and painters visiting the bucolic setting could focus on their creative pursuits and find encouragement for their efforts. The most frequent visitors—considered by Cammie to be her circle of “congenial souls”—included writer/journalist Lyle Saxon, naturalist Caroline Dormon, author Ada Jack Carver, and painter Alberta Kinsey. Artists and artisans such as Harnett Kane, Roark Bradford, William Spratling, Doris Ulmann, and Sherwood Anderson also found their way to Melrose. In addition to hosting well-known guests, Henry began a collection of history books, nineteenth-century manuscripts, and scrapbooks of clippings and memorabilia that later brought her attention from the wider world. Researchers and writers contacted Henry frequently as the reputation of her library grew, and today the Cammie G. Henry Research Center at Northwestern State University houses this impressive collection that serves as a lasting tribute to Henry’s passion for the preservation of words as well as for the South’s material culture, including quilting, spinning, and gardening.

Download or read book Red River written by Lalita Tademy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbreaking and compelling story of a family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. From Sam Tademy, the son of a runaway slave, and his fiercely strong wife Polly, to the father and son who witness unspeakable crimes, this is a story in which courage and hope do battle with almost unendurable suffering; where real lives collide with history.

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Download or read book Clementine Hunter written by Art Shiver and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her -- glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards -- as well as on canvas. She produced between five and ten thousand paintings, including her most ambitious work, the African House Murals. Scenes of cotton planting and harvesting, washdays, weddings, baptisms, funerals, Saturday night revelry, and zinnias depict experiences of everyday plantation life along the Cane River. More than a personal record of Hunter's life, her paintings also reflect the social, material, and cultural aspects of the area's larger African American community. Drawing on archival research, interviews, personal files, and a close relationship with the artist, Art Shiver and Tom Whitehead offer the first comprehensive biography of this self-taught painter, who attracted the attention of the world. Shiver and Whitehead trace Hunter's childhood, her encounters at Melrose with artists and writers, such as Alberta Kinsey and Lyle Saxon, and the role played by eccentric François Mignon, who encouraged and promoted her art. The authors include rare paintings and photographs to illustrate Hunter's creative process and discuss the evolution of her style. The book also highlights Hunter's impact on the modern art world and provides insight into a decades-long forgery operation that Tom Whitehead helped uncover. This recent attention reinforced the uniqueness of Hunter's art and confirmed her place in the international art community, which continues to be inspired by the life and work of Clementine Hunter.