![]() ![]() ![]() Her happiness is at stake because of others' darker plans for her like her mother before her, to enter into "placage," the practice of white landowners keeping "colored" women. Meanwhile, Marie is being sought after by an affluent and highly regarded friend of Marcel's. When a famous novelist and free man of color, Christophe Mercier, returns to New Orleans to open a school, Marcel jumps at the chance to attend and be educated by his idol. ![]() ![]() Philippe promises Marcel a prized education in Paris, and Marcel is determined to achieve it. He is also blissfully ignorant of a future that Cecile fears is doomed - for only in Europe can a young man of mixed heritage be assured the education and the freedom he deserves. Strikingly handsome, and raised in privilege, Marcel strives to live up to his father's expectations. Sixteen-year-old Marcel is the copper-skinned, blue-eyed son of plantation owner Philippe Ferronaire and Philippe's black mistress, Cecile. Marie, and their close friends Anna Bella Monroe and Richard Lermontant as they confront the transition from adolescence into their uncertain social positions as adults in 1840's New Orleans. The story focuses on Marcel Ste, Marie, his sister Marie Ste. Chronicles the lives of four "free people of color," descendants of African slaves and their French and Spanish owners who lived in Louisiana before the Civil War. ![]()
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