Winners of The Historic New Orleans Collection s Second Writing Contest Announced myneworleans.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myneworleans.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Preservation Hall Brass Band, by Alan Flattmann (www.alanflattmann.com)
In 1857, in a decree that flouted Louisiana case law that allowed white men to free their enslaved children, paramours and common-law wives, the Louisiana legislature voted that slavery could no longer be reversed. It was one more tightening of the screws by plantation interests against Blacks as the legislature grew more polarized over the slave economy.
In 1858, New Orleans closed an African Methodist Episcopal church after police raids for “unlawful assembly” of enslaved and free Blacks. The city of 116,000, the nation’s largest market in the sale of human beings, had nearly 10,000 free people of color
Listen to the Recovered Voices of 19th Century Black Activists myneworleans.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myneworleans.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In Iceland, they celebrate Christmas Eve with a tradition of jólabókaflóð, the âYule Book Flood.â People give books on Christmas Eve and spend the evening reading, preferably with chocolate close at hand. Sounds like a great idea to me!
Itâs easy to have your own Yule Book Flood with Louisiana books this year, which has brought us so many big, beautiful volumes â one good thing to come out of 2020! Visit your favorite indie bookstore â shop local! â and stock up on chocolate. Santa, your book bag runneth over.
Beautiful coffee table books
âAfro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisianaâs Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition,â translated and introduced by Clint Bruce, with a foreword by Angel Adams Parham (Historic New Orleans Collection, $40) is a fascinating look at the world of the free people of color who contributed poetry to African American newspapers. The introduction is illuminating and draws the reader