George Washington Cable (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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The New Orleans into which George Washington Cable was born in 1844 was the most multiethnic city in the United States. The Creole majority was descended from early French and Spanish inhabitants. Acadians, also known as Cajuns, established themselves there after arriving from Canada’s eastern provinces. Blacks, free and slave, did the work, and the Mississippi River, the nation’s most traveled highway during the early 1800’s, daily brought new arrivals from points north.
Cable’s father died when George was fifteen, necessitating his taking a...
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