Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and Black oppression.
All Saints
โ Scribed by Liam Callanan
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Delacorte Press
- Year
- 2008;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Emily Hamilton, a fifty-year-old teacher at a Catholic high school, teaches her students about long-forgotten saints and martyrs, until a student's unusual version of a class assignment brings Emily face to face with temptations past and present.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the "Free People of Color", descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and Black oppression.
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and Black oppression.
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