{"id":44324,"date":"2015-11-28T20:05:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44324"},"modified":"2015-11-28T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:05:09","slug":"the-quadroon-concubines-of-new-orleans-on-wanton-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44324","title":{"rendered":"The quadroon concubines of New Orleans on Wanton Weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/judeknightauthor.com\/2015\/10\/25\/the-quadroon-concubines-of-new-orleans-on-wanton-weekends\/\" target=\"_blank\">The quadroon concubines of New Orleans on Wanton Weekends<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judeknightauthor.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jude Knight<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/judeknightauthor.com\/about-the-author\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jude Knight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> at the end of the 18th Century, a wealthy white man would generally live on his plantation with his wife and children, but he would also have a townhouse in New Orleans where his other family lived: his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1144\" target=\"_blank\">quadroon<\/a> mistress and the children he had made with her.<\/p>\n<p>To the men and women involved, these <em>marriages de la main gauche<\/em> (left-handed marriages) were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7657\" target=\"_blank\">honourable arrangements<\/a>. The women were faithful to their protectors, and the men were expected to provide for their children. It was what a gentleman did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/judeknightauthor.com\/2015\/10\/25\/the-quadroon-concubines-of-new-orleans-on-wanton-weekends\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quadroon concubines of New Orleans on Wanton Weekends Jude Knight 2015-10-25 Jude Knight In New Orleans at the end of the 18th Century, a wealthy white man would generally live on his plantation with his wife and children, but he would also have a townhouse in New Orleans where his other family lived: his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,369,8,20,25],"tags":[22098,1438,3850],"class_list":["post-44324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-jude-knight","tag-new-orleans","tag-quadroon-balls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324","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=44324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44325,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions\/44325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}