Welcome to the Weekend POU! Feast Of All Saints is a historical novel by author and New Orleans native Anne Rice. The plot centers on the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War and in particular, the placage system and its effect on the children born from this institution. In 2001, a miniseries of the same name … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
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Friday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Happy Friday POU! SMH.....nothing new under the sun. Just replace "pirate" with "drug dealer" - dumb woman still doing dumb shit for a no good outlaw! Sisters Marie and Catherine Villard were the mistresses of the New Orleans-based pirate brothers Pierre and Jean Laffite. Pierre had at least seven children with Marie. His relationship with her also proved handy … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Thursday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Good Morning POU! We continue our series of looking at the lives of the placee in colonial Louisiana. Common portray of Marie Louise Rochon. According to some stories, she not only African and French heritage but also Native American as well. Rosette Rochon was born in 1767 in colonial Mobile, the daughter of Pierre Rochon, a shipbuilder from a Québécois family and his … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Tuesday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Good Morning POU! We take a look this week at the lives of the placee, women of color who became the lifetime mistresses of wealthy slave owners in the antebellum south. When you hear today's racists yelling that the Civil War was not about slavery but states rights, and the rationale is "because black people owned slaves!!". They don't mean some enterprising field negro … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Monday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs
Good Morning POU! OK, so I know you're wondering "WUT??" after you saw the topic for this week. Allow me to explain (cuz, trust, its accurate). Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in French and Spanish slave colonies of North America (including the Caribbean) by which ethnic European men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of color, … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs