CREOLE DAYS

While romantic in plot the stories revealed the multi-cultural and multi-racial nature of antebellum New Orleans society with ties among French Spanish African Native American and Caribbean Creoles. He also addressed conflicts that arose following the Louisiana Purchase when traditional New Orleans Creoles of color had to confront Anglo-Americans who ultimately asserted their concept of a biracial society rather than acknowledging the multi-racial class of free people of color. -- Wikipedia. George Washington Cable (October 12 1844 - January 31 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans Louisiana. He has been called the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century as well as the first modern southern writer. In his treatment of racism mixed-race families and miscegenation his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow Cable moved with his family to Northampton Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years then moved to Florida. Includes original artwork by Valerie Khodakovskaya.