Viilliere: A Short Story

While she and Nancy finished the wash, they talked. Charity asked how Nancy knew how old she was; Nancy’s reply surprised her.

Kimberley S. Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).

After the disappointing outcome of their previous journey, Charity was determined that this time, she would not fail. Jeremiah doubted that she would find Henry; however, he kept those doubts to himself. He did not want to discourage her or to cause Charity more worry than she already had… The battle for Vicksburg might have been over, but the war was far from

"I didn't even bother with doing it, I don't know why you did," she said. Emelie giggled.

However, Charity soon discovers that her grandfather is on a mission to get her married off and settled somewhere because of his advanced age. Sensing that his time is near, he doesn’t want to die and leave her alone and desolate.

When Charity, who has never met Eli or his family, hears that, she threatens to act rude in order to make them not like her so that she can go back home with him, but her grandfather tells her that she cannot go back home with him and assures her that if young Henry doesn’t take a liking to her, he is sure that some young buck down in Fort Charlotte will be looking for a wife.

“...Then you were mighty polite to do all that chopping and hauling for her, weren’t you, boy?”

The story is told by Mike Tidwell, a man who chooses to hitchhike down the Bayou, catching rides on stranger's boats who he has never met before. He started on his exciting journey, not knowing what would become of him. Relying on strangers kindness, and a great deal of luck. Throughout the book the author travels down the 'Baya', as the Cajun people call it, and meets many people of Cajun background who call this place their home. The Author's main purpose in writing this book is to share with the world the lifestyle of these Cajun people; and how their home is disappearing before their own eyes. He wants to call attention to the rising problem of the disappearing marshlands, with the intention of slowing down the

This essay is written in the first-person perspective of a 37 year old, white male plantation owner, that lives half of a mile south of Vicksburg Mississippi.

The focus of this book is on nineteenth-century New Orleans and the slave market that emerged then and there. More than other workings of slavery, slave markets reduced humans to commodities with prices. In particular, this book is interested in the story of slave showrooms, which held up to 100 slaves and where appraisals, accountings, back-room dealings, and other activities took place. The book attributes the slave trade to mercantilism whereby colonial imports serviced and stocked metropolitan centers and generated profits secured for both state-sponsored companies and the monopoly-granting state itself. Companies with well-connected leaders and government ties could gain state privileges and favors and receive special

One of the most unique things about New Orleans particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries where this image is derived from was race and racism. People were excluded or included, considered inferior or superior based on the race they belonged to. To this end, Indians, and African Americans were classified on the lower end of the race totem pole while whites were seen as superior. Furthermore, one’s stance in society or occupation was determined by their race. The whites were majorly businessmen and land owners presiding over big farms that they owned. The blacks and the Indians were mostly peasants ‘owned’ by the white people and forced to work on the farms of the white people against their will owing to the fact that they were imported from their original residences as slaves (Appleby, Eileen and Neva 18). It is, therefore, clear that race and racism played a significant role in helping define New Orleans as we know it today. Bringing racism to the fore provides a platform upon which it can be alleviated to help

“Oh ... hey, Olivia. What can I do for you this morning?” Maddie hoped that whatever it was, it wouldn’t take much effort on her part as making the coffee was going to be challenging

landowner of the plantation L’Abri in the ante-bellum south of Louisiana, is confronted by a family secret that has been hidden from him, even into adulthood.

After waking early, he slipped out of bed quietly, and peered down with a sense of guilt at the woman he'd solemnly vowed to forever cherish, then showered, dressed and walked to the kitchen, There, Ellis brewed a pot of coffee, and contemplated his actions of the previous night, before he re-entered the bedroom, placed a cup of coffee for Beth by the bedside, and kissed her on the cheek. "I've a busy day, see you tonight."

Blassingame, John W. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.