Volume 1

Domestic manners of the Americans ... / [Frances Milton Trollope].

  • Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863.
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic manners of the Americans ... / [Frances Milton Trollope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. New Orleans—-Society—Creoles and Quadroons— Voyage up the Mississippi. f On first touching the soil of a new land, of a new continent, of a new world, it is impossible not to feel considerable excitement and deep interest in almost every object that meets us. New Orleans presents very little that can gratify the eye of taste, but nevertheless there is much of novelty and interest for a newly-arrived European. The large proportion of blacks seen in the streets, all labour being performed by them ; the grace and beauty of the elegant Quadroons, the occasional groups of wild and savage looking Indians, the unwonted aspect of the vegetation, the huge and turbid river, with its low and slimy shore, all help to afford that species of amusement which proceeds from looking at what we never saw before. The town has much the appearance of a French Ville de Province, and is, in fact, an old French