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Before law and order took hold, New Orleans was boisterous; before class, racial and political lines were drawn, it was a parade of beautiful women and good-looking men, flowing wine, and pleasure for the taking.
But soon the eyes of suspicion turn toward Ben—for, black as the slave who fathered him, this free man of color is still the perfect scapegoat. . . . Praise for A Free Man of Color “A smashing debut.
In New Orleans in the 1830s, Benjamin January, a Creole musician and a free Black man, struggles to clear his name when he becomes a suspect in the murder of an octoroon woman
Free Man of Color: The Autobiography of Willis Augustus Hodges
Like many cabinetmakers, Thomas Day made coffins, ranging from plain pine boxes to elegant mahogany ones. Many he sold directly to merchants John Wilson and Richard Smith: $3.00 for a pine coffin (1836); $3.25 for a coffin for a black ...
See Mello Barreto Filho and Hermeto Lima , História da polícia do Rio de Janeiro : aspéctos da cidade e da vida carioca , 1870–1889 , Rio de Janeiro , A Noite , 1944 , pp . 149–51 . Hermeto Lima was an author who specialized in police ...
The amazing story of a nineteenth-century businessman, Reconstruction, and the Constitution
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A Free Man of Color and His Hotel weaves the story of a uniquely successful black businessman into the burgeoning post–Civil War political struggle that pitted the federal government against the states’ desire to remain autonomous.
Originally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.