Belles Desmoiselles Plantation
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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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Belles Desmoiselles Plantation
Tite Poulette
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1874 sketches of the American South: steamboat labor on the Mississippi and New Orleans vignettes depicting Creole life, race, poverty, and precarious livelihoods.
Jean-ah-Poquelin
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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.
Madame Délicieuse
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A travel sketch revels in discovering Jersey's rustic charms. A fiction vignette depicts Madame Délicieuse, a glamorous Creole hostess in New Orleans society.
Café des Exilés
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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.
Old Creole Days
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Sketch of old Creole New Orleans: Madame Delphine, quadroon society, smugglers, and fading social splendor.
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
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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.
Madame Delphine
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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.
History and Present Condition of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Report on the City of Austin, Texas
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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.
Dr. Sevier
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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.
The Freedman’s Case in Equity
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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.
The Silent South: Together With the Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System
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George W. Cable critiques post–Civil War Southern society, urging national responsibility for racial justice and exposing abuses like the convict-lease system.
Creole Slave Songs
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Study of Louisiana and West Indian Creole slave songs: their Creole dialect, song-forms (dance, love-songs, dirges), and the cultural and social context of enslaved and free people of color.
What Shall the Negro Do?
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1888 essay addressing African Americans: praises post-emancipation gains but decries persistent discrimination. Urges organization, civic participation, education, and allied support.
A Simpler Southern Question
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Notes Tolstoy’s religious sincerity, then analyzes the 'Negro question,' arguing that Reconstruction-era reforms advanced civil and voting rights but the problem remains unfinished.
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