Louisa Picquet

Louisa Picquet (c. 1828, Columbia, South Carolina - June 11, 1896, New Richmond, Ohio). The story of her life was published in Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life. This narrative focus on aspects of her life that manifest due to heritage as an octoroon. The work also highlights the sexual exploitation that the females slaves experienced at the hands of the white men. In her quest to find and free her mother, she met Hiram Mattison who helped her publish her story to raise money to purchase her mother.^[1]

Notes

A summary of this work is available at: Prince, Monique. Summary. Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life ( 1861) ^[2]

References

1. "Louisa Picquet". Retrieved 12 July 2013.
2. "Summary of Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life". Docsouth.unc.edu. Retrieved 2013-08-02.

• Pitts, Reginald H. Louisa Picquet c.1829-1896. Legacy, Volume 24, Number 2 2007 pp 294–305.

Further reading

• Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. (1960)

• Bert, James Loewenberg and Ruth Bogn. Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings.

• Pension Records of Henry Picquet, late Private, Unassigned Troops, United States Colored Troops, and Private Company K 42nd United States Colored Troops National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• Pension Records of Mrs. Louisa Picquet, widow of Henry Picquet, deceased, late of Company K 42nd United States Colored Troops National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• Picquet, Louisa and Hiram Mattison. Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life. New York: The Author, 1861. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/picquet/