An Hour with Moher Henriette Delille

by Doris Goudeaux

Born in 1812, Henriette Delille Sarpy was from one of the oldest and affluent racially mixed Catholic Creole families in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Her great-great-grandmother was an African slave brought to Louisiana who subsequently won her freedom. Her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother also had children by white men so Henriette, her mother, and her brother could "pass for white."

A French missionary nun taught Henriette and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764828290
• ISBN13: 9780764828294
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Liguori Publications
• Length: 24 Pages