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By Emily Clark

unique, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race loose girl of colour has lengthy operated as a metaphor for brand new Orleans. generally called a "quadroon," she and the town she represents relaxation irretrievably condemned within the renowned ancient mind's eye by means of the associated sins of slavery and interracial intercourse. despite the fact that, as Emily Clark indicates, the wealthy information of recent Orleans inform a distinct tale. unfastened girls of colour with ancestral roots in New Orleans have been as more likely to marry within the 1820s as white girls. And marriage, now not concubinage, used to be the root in their family members constitution. In The unusual historical past of the yank Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic coloured mistress turned an tricky literary and advertisement trope, persisting as an emblem that lengthy outlived the political and cultural reasons for which it have been created. Untangling fable and reminiscence, she provides a dramatically new and nuanced realizing of the myths and realities of recent Orleans's loose girls of color.

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