{"id":49602,"date":"2016-10-25T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49602"},"modified":"2016-10-29T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T16:41:29","slug":"tripod-mythbusters-quadroon-balls-and-placage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49602","title":{"rendered":"TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Pla\u00e7age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wwno.org\/post\/tripod-mythbusters-quadroon-balls-and-pla-age\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Pla\u00e7age<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wwno.org\/post\/tripod\" target=\"_blank\">Tripod<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wwno.org\" target=\"_blank\">WWNO 89.9 FM<\/a><br \/>\nNew Orleans, Louisiana<br \/>\n2016-09-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaineKapLev\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laine Kaplan-Levenson<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p>There is a common myth told about\u00a019th-century\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a>. It goes something like this: Imagine you\u2019re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early\u00a01800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free women of color, who were at the time called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1144\" target=\"_blank\">quadroons<\/a>, meaning they supposedly had \u00bc African ancestry. The mothers play matchmakers, and introduce their daughters to these white men, who then ask their hand in a dance.<\/p>\n<p>The ballroom is fancy, and the invited guests look the part. When a match is made, a contract is drawn up. The white man agrees to take care of the young woman and any children she may have with him. This arrangement was called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7657\" target=\"_blank\">pla\u00e7age<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charles Chamberlain teaches history at the University of New Orleans.\u00a0\u201cPla\u00e7age\u00a0is defined historically as where a white man would basically have a relationship with a free woman of color where she would be kept, so that he would provide her with a house and some form of income so that she could maintain a lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Chamberlain is describing is basically a common-law marriage. And those did happen. But the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\">Quadroon Balls<\/a> is way sexier, which helps explain why they get talked about so much. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Quarter\" target=\"_blank\">French Quarter<\/a> tour guides walk by the Bourbon Orleans hotel and talk about the famous quadroon balls that took place inside. But try to find proof of\u00a0pla\u00e7age\u00a0Chamberlain says, and it\u2019s not there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/wwno.org\/post\/tripod-mythbusters-quadroon-balls-and-pla-age\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TriPod Mythbusters: Quadroon Balls And Pla\u00e7age Tripod WWNO 89.9 FM New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-09-22 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Host There is a common myth told about\u00a019th-century\u00a0New Orleans. It goes something like this: Imagine you\u2019re in an elegant dance hall in New Orleans in the early\u00a01800s. Looking around, you see a large group of white men and free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,459,369,8,20,25],"tags":[25295,25294,10229,24190,1438,25293,24192,25296],"class_list":["post-49602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-barbara-trevigne","tag-charles-chamberlain","tag-emily-clark","tag-laine-kaplan-levenson","tag-new-orleans","tag-tripod","tag-wwno","tag-wwno-89-9-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49602","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=49602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49660,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49602\/revisions\/49660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}