Laura's Family Tree

Four generations of Laura's family worked on this Louisiana sugar plantation. In her family were French aristocrats, war heroes, astute businesswomen, cousins who married cousins, slave-holders who were brutal as well as sensitive, hot-headed "fire-eaters," morose introverts, and farm managers, both competent and dissolute, all subjects in her Memories and all living outside the American mainstream.

 

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