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Reader Meet Writer: Southern Independent Booksellers Assn.

Thu, Feb 25

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https://sibaweb.com/mpage/readermeetwriter

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood with Fatima Shaik---The SIBA conversation with audience Q & A. Everyone welcome!

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 Reader Meet Writer: Southern Independent Booksellers Assn.
 Reader Meet Writer: Southern Independent Booksellers Assn.

Time & Location

Feb 25, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST

https://sibaweb.com/mpage/readermeetwriter

About The Event

It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle built a community and held it together through the era of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow terrorism. Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood follows Ludger Boguille, his family, and friends through landmark events—from the Haitian Revolution to the birth of jazz—that shaped New Orleans and the United States.

The story begins with the author’s father rescuing a century’s worth of handwritten journals, in French, from a trash hauler’s pickup truck. From the journals’ pages emerged one of the most important multiethnic, intellectual communities in the US South: educators, world-traveling merchants, soldiers, tradesmen, and poets. Although Louisiana law classified them as men of color, Negroes, and Blacks, the Economie…

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