{"id":63773,"date":"2022-05-12T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63773"},"modified":"2022-05-12T17:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:45:28","slug":"how-a-slaves-daughter-became-an-1800s-new-orleans-entrepreneur-a-marigny-cottage-helps-tell-the-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63773","title":{"rendered":"How a slave’s daughter became an 1800s New Orleans entrepreneur: A Marigny cottage helps tell the tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

How a slave’s daughter became an 1800s New Orleans entrepreneur: A Marigny cottage helps tell the tale<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NOLA.com<\/a>
\n2022-05-09<\/p>\n

Mike Scott<\/strong><\/a>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n

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The house at 1515-17 Pauger St.<\/a> in New Orleans<\/a> sold in 2016 for $600,000.
\n(Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The little Creole<\/a> cottage at 1515-17 Pauger St.<\/a> in the Marigny Triangle<\/a> is a humble one. Small and tidy, there would have been little to distinguish it from the countless other homes like it in New Orleans<\/a> when it was built 200 years ago.<\/p>\n

But sometimes a house is more than a house. Sometimes, the story it has to tell adds a little flavor to what it has to offer.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s precisely the case with the Pauger Street house, which stands out today as a beautifully preserved example of the bricks-between-posts construction \u2014 or briquette-entre-poteaux<\/em><\/a> \u2014 so common during the city\u2019s French colonial era.<\/p>\n

Much more than that, although, the little home represents the indomitable spirit of the lady of shade who, in opposition to all odds, constructed it \u2014 presumably as a rental property, no much less \u2014 at a time wherein being White and male had been two of an important {qualifications} for such endeavors…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How a slave’s daughter became an 1800s New Orleans entrepreneur: A Marigny cottage helps tell the tale NOLA.com 2022-05-09 Mike Scott, Contributing Writer The house at 1515-17 Pauger St. in New Orleans sold in 2016 for $600,000. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com |The Times-Picayune) The little Creole cottage at 1515-17 Pauger St. in the Marigny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,369,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[33475,1438,25907,33474,33481,25906,25541,25542],"class_list":["post-63773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-mike-scott","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-advocate","tag-nola-com","tag-rosette-rochon","tag-the-new-orleans-advocate","tag-the-times-picayune","tag-times-picayune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63773","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=63773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63775,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63773\/revisions\/63775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}