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Historical person
19th century
Claude Paschal Maistre was a French-born Catholic priest in New Orleans who became known for abolitionist views and ministry among free and enslaved Black residents. Claude Paschal Maistre served as Catholic priest.
His position brought him into conflict with ecclesiastical authorities in a church divided over slavery and political loyalty. Maistre officiated at André Cailloux’s funeral in July 1863, when a large procession transformed mourning into a public statement about Black Union service.
In Doug Peterson’s The Dixie Devil, The novel links his public career to Félicie and the abolitionist priest Claude Paschal Maistre, using documented regimental history and the celebrated funeral while imaginatively reconstructing intimate relationships, conflict and faith.
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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