An Octoroon
Title | An Octoroon PDF eBook |
Author | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 082223226X |
Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.
The Octoroon
Title | The Octoroon PDF eBook |
Author | Dion Boucicault |
Publisher | Litres |
Pages | 91 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 5040658508 |
The Octoroon
Title | The Octoroon PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Louisiana |
ISBN |
The Octoroon
Title | The Octoroon PDF eBook |
Author | Dion Boucicault |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2020-07-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752341386 |
Reproduction of the original: The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault
The Octoroon
Title | The Octoroon PDF eBook |
Author | Hezekiah Lord Hosmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | African American women |
ISBN |
The Strange History of the American Quadroon
Title | The Strange History of the American Quadroon PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Clark |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1469607530 |
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.
The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West
Title | The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West PDF eBook |
Author | Mayne Reid |
Publisher | BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2023-09-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Father of Waters! I know thee well. In the land of a thousand lakes, on the summit of the “Hauteur de terre,” I have leaped thy tiny stream. Upon the bosom of the blue lakelet, the fountain of thy life, I have launched my birchen boat; and yielding to thy current, have floated softly southward. I have passed the meadows where the wild rice ripens on thy banks, where the white birch mirrors its silvery stem, and tall coniferae fling their pyramid shapes, on thy surface. I have seen the red Chippewa cleave thy crystal waters in his bark canoe—the giant moose lave his flanks in thy cooling flood—and the stately wapiti bound gracefully along thy banks. I have listened to the music of thy shores—the call of the cacawee, the laugh of the wa-wa goose, and the trumpet-note of the great northern swan. Yes, mighty river! Even in that far northern land, thy wilderness home, have I worshipped thee!...FROM THE BOOKS.