Our People and Our History,9780807127407

Our People and Our History

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780807127407
ISBN10: 080712740X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

In Our People and Our History, originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Although he received little formal education, Desdunes -- himself a Creole -- was an articulate observer of his times and culture. His portraits of black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, artists, and writers are powerful evidence of the extraordinary role that Creoles played in the cultural and political history of Louisiana.

Author Biography

Sister Dorothea Olga McCants belonged to the Daughters of the Cross religious order at St. Vincent Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Translator's Introduction xxi
Acknowledgments xxv
Preface xxvii
The Free Creoles of Color and the Campaign of 1814-1815-Hippolyte Castra
3(7)
Les Cenelles---Mr. Armand Lanusse and His Times
10(15)
A Dedication---The Collaborators of Les Cenelles---Some Biographical Sketches
25(23)
The Collaborators of Les Cenelles (Continuation)---Biographical Sketches
48(13)
Beaumont and the Creole Song---The Toucoutou Affair---Poets and Journalists
61(8)
The Creole of Color in the Arts and the Liberal Arts Professions---A Page in Our Political History---Popular Military Men---Figures of the Past
69(13)
Music and the Creoles of Color---Rivalry Among Artists---Prejudice
82(8)
Our Philanthropists of the Past---How the Black Man Knows How to Give
90(7)
The Creole Women of Color in the Catholic Churches---The Generosity of Madame Bernard Couvent
97(12)
The Emigration of 1858---The Politics of the Emperor Faustin I of Haiti---Two Great Figures: Emile Desdunes and Captain Octave Rey
109(15)
The Generation of 1860---The Hero, Andre Cailloux---President Johnson and the Question of the Races---Our Political Battles
124(16)
Politics and the Sense of Duty---Mr. Aristide Mary and Citizens' Committee---Our Last Entrenchments---Defections and Failings---Our Last Thank You
140(9)
Index 149

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