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100	1		_aDeJean, Joan E., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMutinous women : _bhow French convicts became founding mothers of the Gulf Coast / _cJoan DeJean.
246	3	0	_aHow French convicts became founding mothers of the Gulf Coast
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_aix, 437 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"On December 12, 1719, a ship named La Mutine, or the Mutinous Woman, sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the vast North American territory then referred to as "the Mississippi." La Mutine was loaded with goods that the fledgling French colony urgently required for its survival, basic foodstuffs such as flour and lard. But its principal commodity was a new kind of French export: women. The women who arrived in the New World from that frigate would go on to found Gulf dynasties, but their beginnings were less auspicious. Falsely accused of sex crimes-some for reporting rape, others because their families were obscenely poor and it was financially expedient to imprison them-these women were prisoners, shackled in the ship's hold. Of the 98 women who were shipped to the colony, only 44 survived. Despite the bleakness of these women's origins, they achieved unlikely triumph across the Atlantic. They managed to carve out a place for themselves in the colonies that would have been impossible in France, making advantageous marriages and accumulating property. Many were instrumental in the building of New Orleans, founded only a year before their arrival, and in settling Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Today, hundreds of thousands of Americans can trace their lineage La Mutine. Drawing on an impressive range of sources to restore the voices of these women to the historical record, Title TK introduces us to the Gulf's Founding Mothers-the "mutinous women" of La Mutine"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPreliminaries: A Second Coast, a Second Ship -- Part I: France. False Arrests and trumped-Up Charges -- John Law's Louisiana Gold Rush -- "Merchandise" for Louisiana -- The Roundup -- Chains and Shackles -- Part II: The Second Coast. "The Islands" of Louisiana -- The Desert Islands of Alabama and Mississippi -- Biloxi's Deadly Sands -- Putting Down Roots in Mobile -- Building a Capital in New Orleans -- Women on the Verge in Natchitoches, Illinois, and Arkansas -- Louisiana's Garden on the German Coast -- Natchez, John Law's Folly -- Pointe Coupée in the Shadow of Natchez -- The End of the Women's Era -- Coda.
651		0	_aGulf States _xHistory _yTo 1803.
650		0	_aFrontier and pioneer life _zGulf States.
651		0	_aFrance _xColonies _zAmerica _vBiography.
650		0	_aFrench _zGulf States _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen prisoners _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aFemale offenders _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aConvict ships _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
610	2	0	_aMutine (Frigate) _xHistory.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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