Rachel of Old Louisiana

by Avery Odelle Craven

Book Overview

Rachel O'Connor was an extraordinary woman. For nearly fifty years (from 1797 to 1846), she lived on a plantation near Bayou Sara in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. And for twenty-five of those years, after the death of her husband, she managed the plantation alone. Although they had, as she said, "begun poor," at the time of her death she owned about a thousand acres and seventy-five slaves.

Not a biography in the conventional sense,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807120162
• ISBN13: 9780807120163
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Touching History from the past

Can you put a price on a human life? Slave owners did, and you can read the inventory record of a plantation. The story is an interesting one, told many times before. The reason this little book stays in my mind is that it does not sugar-coat slavery. It's a real lesson in history.