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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Avoyelles Parish"”.
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Local norms and innovations within the system of locative prepositions in Cajun French
… While diatopic variation overall is weak, Avoyelles parish shows a higher retention of a few long-standing usages than St. Landry and Lafourche, the two other regions under study.</p>
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"I Have Told You about the Cane and Garden": White Women, Cultivation, and Southern Society in Central Louisiana, 1852-1874
This thesis examines cultivation in the lives of Sarah and Columbia Bennett between the years 1852 and 1874. The Bennett women's letters convey an intimate sense of the agro-economic preoccupations (and gardening pleasures) of these slave-owning white women, and the centrality of cultivation in …