{"id":31492,"date":"2013-06-04T20:42:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31492"},"modified":"2016-06-16T03:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:11:03","slug":"my-passage-at-the-new-orleans-tribune-a-memoir-of-the-civil-war-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31492","title":{"rendered":"My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/my-passage-at-the-new-orleans-tribune\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LSU Press<br \/>\nApril 2001 (Originally published in 1872)<br \/>\n184 pages<br \/>\n5.50 x 9.00 inches<br \/>\n3 halftones<br \/>\nISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Charles_Houzeau\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Charles Houzeau<\/a><\/strong> (1820-1888)<\/p>\n<p>Edited by <strong>David C. Rankin<\/strong><br \/>\nTranslated by <strong>Gerard F. Denault<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/my-passage-at-the-new-orleans-tribune\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/assets\/images\/book-covers\/1829.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> in 1857, he was disturbed that America, founded on the principle of freedom, still tolerated the institution of slavery. In late 1864, he became managing editor of the <em>New Orleans Tribune<\/em>, the first black daily newspaper published in the United States. Ardently sympathetic to the plight of Louisiana\u2019s black population and reveling in the fact that his dark complexion led many people to assume he was black himself, Houzeau passionately embraced his role as the <em>Tribune\u2019s<\/em> editor and principal writer. <em>My Passage at the New Orleans \u201cTribune,\u201d<\/em> first published in Belgium in 1872, is Houzeau\u2019s memoir of the four years he spent as both observer and participant in the drama of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction_Era\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era LSU Press April 2001 (Originally published in 1872) 184 pages 5.50 x 9.00 inches 3 halftones ISBN10: 0807126896, ISBN13: 9780807126899 Jean-Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) Edited by David C. Rankin Translated by Gerard F. Denault When Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau arrived in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,369,8,17,20],"tags":[14843,14844,14846,14845,14842,1051,885],"class_list":["post-31492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-david-c-rankin","tag-david-rankin","tag-gerard-denault","tag-gerard-f-denault","tag-jean-charles-houzeau","tag-louisiana-state-university-press","tag-lsu-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47685,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions\/47685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}