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In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.
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Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, this colorful and evocative novel captures the lives of the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Color, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the worlds of white privilege and black oppression. Reissue. (A Showtime/ABC-TV miniseries, directed by Peter Medak, produced by Anne Rice, starring Forest Whitaker, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Gloria Reuben, & Ben Vereen)
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