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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Madame Delphine
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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Creole Slave Songs
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.
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A Layman’s Hints
1887 Sunday School Times: lesson helps, editorials on kindness and the ambiguity of words, plus Sunday-school teaching guidance. Features John the Baptist (matthew 14) and Mark lessons.
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What Shall the Negro Do?
1888 essay addressing African Americans: praises post-emancipation gains but decries persistent discrimination. Urges organization, civic participation, education, and allied support.
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A Simpler Southern Question
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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Strange True Stories of Lousiana
Preface to George W. Cable's Strange True Stories of Louisiana describing the author's recovery of manuscripts, court papers, and eyewitness accounts that yielded several real-life tales.
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The Southern Struggle for Pure Government: An Address
George W. Cable argues that true self-government needs both free and pure ballots; excluding citizens (esp. Black voters) breeds corruption and undermines Reconstruction-era democracy.
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The Busy Man’s Bible and How to Study and Teach It
Practical handbook urging busy men to study and teach the Bible. Offers guidance on why to study, how to begin, build study habits, and teach with the right spirit.
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A Memory of Roswell Smith. Born March 30, 1829. Died April 19, 1892
Memoir of Roswell Smith (1829–1892), an industrious American publisher and devout Christian. Covers his upbringing, career in publishing, marriage, and faithful character.
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Does the Negro Pay for His Education?
Analyzes Southern public-school underfunding: constitutional limits on property taxes and capricious poll-tax collection shift costs onto poor whites and Black citizens.
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Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War
Diary of a Union woman living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, recounting daily life, secession, slavery, social tensions, and escapes/prison experiences.
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