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
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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
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