Cypress logging raft on the Teche, ca. 1910 (postcard). Bayou Teche Dispatches is a collection of my writings about south Louis...

This essay is one of five in which I address current issues in Cajun and Creole studies .  The other essays can be found  here . I wrote the...

I have been asked a number of times “When did slavery in Louisiana end?” * The short answer is that slavery in Louisiana ended between the e...