Archives
The Confessional Presbyterian Archive is a curated digital library dedicated to preserving and promoting the writings of 17th–20th century Presbyterian pastors, teachers, and leaders. Featuring thousands of searchable texts, biographies, and historical resources, the archive provides direct access to the primary-source materials of American Presbyterianism.
Holisso Anumpa Tosholi: An English and Choctaw Definer for the Choctaw Academies and Schools
1852 English–Choctaw dictionary by Cyrus Byington for Choctaw academies and schools. First edition (1500 copies), published by the American Board for Foreign Missions.
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Grammar of the Choctaw Language
Overview of Rev. Cyrus Byington’s Choctaw Grammar and missionary career—describing alphabet, phonology, grammar features, orthography, and his New Testament translations.
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A Talk With My Class
1885 Sunday-school talk for Virginia children explaining the first four Ten Commandments, urging duty to God, prayer, Sabbath observance, and moral formation.
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Sieur George
A travelogue of California's geyser region and landscapes, followed by a New Orleans short story about the mysterious 'Sieur George' and his secluded life. Nature and local color dominate.
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Belles Desmoiselles Plantation
A Creole plantation tale: Colonel De Charleu, his seven daughters, and a disputed town property owned by 'old Charlie.' Themes of pride, family, and slavery on the Mississippi.
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Tite Poulette
1874 sketches of the American South: steamboat labor on the Mississippi and New Orleans vignettes depicting Creole life, race, poverty, and precarious livelihoods.
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Jean-ah-Poquelin
Scribner's (1875) short fiction: Jean-Ah Poquelin, a shunned Louisiana planter accused after his brother's disappearance; his marsh home descends into decay and local superstition.
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Madame Délicieuse
A travel sketch revels in discovering Jersey's rustic charms. A fiction vignette depicts Madame Délicieuse, a glamorous Creole hostess in New Orleans society.
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Café des Exilés
Nostalgic vignette of a New Orleans café for Caribbean exiles—host D'Hemecourt, his daughter Pauline, Manuel and Major Shaughnessy—exploring exile, community, and memory.
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Old Creole Days
Sketch of old Creole New Orleans: Madame Delphine, quadroon society, smugglers, and fading social splendor.
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The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George W. Cable's The Grandissimes: vivid Creole New Orleans scenes — a masked ball revealing social masks and the arrival of immigrant family, exposing charity, society, and tension.
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Madame Delphine
George W. Cable excerpt depicting Creole New Orleans: the faded quadroon world, Madame Delphine's decaying house, and figures like Capitaine Lemaitre amid social decline.
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History and Present Condition of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Report on the City of Austin, Texas
1881 U.S. Department of the Interior report on New Orleans: site, origin, colonial history, population and social order, institutions and urban development from Bienville onward.
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Dr. Sevier
Excerpt from George W. Cable's Dr. Sevier: a stern New Orleans physician in 1856, his attitudes toward wealth, poverty, and charity, and a young stranger seeking help for his ill wife.
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The Freedman’s Case in Equity
Argues America's chief problem is the freedman, a national responsibility from slavery. Critiques the idea of the black man as an immutable 'alien' and urges candid reform toward equity.
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The Silent South: Together With the Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System
George W. Cable critiques post–Civil War Southern society, urging national responsibility for racial justice and exposing abuses like the convict-lease system.
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