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Historical person
d. 1874
Louise Félicie Coulon was a free woman of colour in New Orleans who married André Cailloux. Their family belonged to the city’s established Francophone Black Catholic community, whose status and security were transformed by Union occupation and the move towards emancipation.
After André was killed at Port Hudson, Félicie participated in the public memory of his service while supporting their children in a society still marked by racial discrimination. The historical record preserves less about her private experience than about her husband’s military career.
Series
The North-South Series is a five-volume sequence of biographical historical novels about Black resistance to slavery and service during the American Civil War. Its first three books reconstruct the escapes of Ellen and William Craft, Henry “Box” Brown and Harriet Tubman; the final two turn to John Scobell’s…
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