MUTINOUS WOMEN: HOW FRENCH CONVICTS BECAME FOUNDING MOTHERS OF THE GULF COAST BY JOAN DEJEAN Backgammon a Haitian of African descent

a Haitian of African descent and Parisian citizen has been sentenced to a life of hell at Château d'If for treason against the Ancien Régime

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MUTINOUS WOMEN: HOW FRENCH CONVICTS BECAME FOUNDING MOTHERS OF THE GULF COAST BY JOAN DEJEAN Backgammon a Haitian of African descentThe secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women. Falsely accused of sex crimes, these women were prisoners, shackled