The Creoles of Louisiana eBook George Washington Cable
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George Washington Cable (1844 – 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner.
MR. CABLE'S earlier books have been so widely known and so appreciated by all who have read them, that any new work from his hand is sure to be welcome. Having already preserved for us the delicate as well as the strong features of the Louisiana Creole character (which is now fast changing), Mr. Cable undertakes in this volume to show the gradual development, not only of the Creole himself, but of his birthplace, Louisiana, and of the various phases through which the State passed before becoming one of the prosperous States of the Union.
Contrary to the popular idea, the novelist is not always a mere purveyor of amusement; he is often a thinker. It need not surprise us therefore that Mr. Cable, who has become justly famous for his art in narrating imaginary events, should come forward as the popular historian of New Orleans. Having presented us, in "Old Creole Days," with a bouquet of flowers of romance, he now proceeds, as it were, to explain the nature of the soil from which they sprang. The whole course of the growth of New Orleans, from its founding by Bienville, and from the early days of Ulloa, Aubry and O'Reilly, is carefully retraced in these pages. The Indian wars, the cession to Spain, the re-acquisition by Napoleon, the purchase by the United States, and the later local vicissitudes, are all related in a style of great refinement and gives him an opportunity for dramatic incident and pathos, the effect of which would have been stirring and ennobling. One can see that, in places, Mr. Cable has written under some constraint; and his task is a delicate one in discussing the Creoles themselves, since his fictions have already excited their ire. The impartial reader will conclude that they have no ground of complaint against the present work, since, although it does not hide their shortcomings, it accords them lucidity, but with a reserve that reminds one at times of Parkman. Among the most picturesque episodes is that of the pirates of Barataria, with their chief, Jean Lafitte.
Cable shows how the peculiar and little understood Creole population has contributed to building of a great city in a swamp--what persistence, love of liberty, heroism it has shown, despite its proverbial indolence.
Contents
I. WHO ARE THE CREOLES?
II. FRENCH FOUNDERS.
III. THE CREOLES' CITY.
IV. AFRICAN SLAVES AND INDIAN WARS.
V. THE NEW GENERATION.
VI. THE FIRST CREOLES.
VII. PRAYING TO THE KING.
VIII. TJLLOA, ATJBEY, AND THE SUPERIOR COUNCIL.
IX. The Insurrection.
X. THE PRICE OF HALF-CONVICTIONS.
XI. COUNT O'REILLY AND SPANISH LAWS.
XII. SPANISH CONCILIATION.
XIII. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON THE GULF SIDE.
XIV. SPANISH NEW ORLEANS.
XV. HOW BORE MADE SUGAR.
XVI. THE CREOLES SING THE MARSEILLAISE.
XVII. THE AMERICANS.
XVIII. SPAIN AGAINST FATE.
XIX. NEW ORLEANS SOUGHT—LOUISIANA BOUGHT.
XX. NEW ORLEANS IN 1803.
XXI. FROM SUBJECTS TO CITIZENS.
XXII. BUER'S CONSPIRACY.
XXIII. THE WEST INDIAN COUSIN.
XXIV. THE PIRATES OF BARATARIA.
XXV. BARATARIA DESTROYED.
XXVI. THE BRITISH INVASION.
XXVII. THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
XXVIII. THE END OF THE PIRATES.
XXIX. FAUBOURG STE. MARIE.
XXX. A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE.
XXXI. FLUSH TIMES.
XXXII. WHY NOT BIGGER THAN LONDON.
XXXIII. THE SCHOOL-MASTER.
XXXIV. LATER DAYS.
XXXV. Inundations
XXXVI. SAUVE'S CREVASSE.
XXXVII. THE DAYS OF PESTILENCE
XXXVIII. THE GREAT EPIDEMIC.
XXXIX. BRIGHTER SKIES.
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The Creoles of Louisiana eBook George Washington Cable Reviews
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The volume was very helpful in understanding the history of New Orleans/Louisiana and the influences Europe and the West Indies had in its development. The section on the role of piracy was also interesting. The section on the War of 1812 was a bit too detailed, but illustrated how many different types of people (including Lafitte's pirates) came together under Andrew Jackson to defeat the British. The detail the author provides in the commercial development of New Orleans and the role of Creoles was fascinating. Bank failures then are indicative of the reasons for bank failures in more recent times - history repeated itself many times over! I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the history of the region as it starts with geography, and then gets much more complicated. Hurricane Katrina had many predecessors in the region, and corruption played a role "back then" in reconstruction as it did in the aftermath of Katrina, under which part of New Orleans is still laboring.
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THIS BOOK HAS ANSWERED A LOT OF QUESTIONS FOR ME IN REFERENCE TO OLD LOUISIANA HISTORY
An appropriate look at Cable's attitude toward the
Cajun community of Louisiana.
All our textbooks in school cover the American Revolution from England emphasizing the 13 colonies. This book deals in fascinating detail with the revolution that took place in New Orleans area with the French and Spanish, during the late 1700's. The book was written before 1900, but don't let that scare you. The author writes well and knows his history!
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