Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast by Joan DeJean

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Joan DeJean

448 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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Falsely accused of sex crimes, these women were prisoners, shackled in the ship's hold. Of the 132 women who were sent this way, only 62 survived. But these women carved out a place for themselves in the colonies that would have been impossible in...

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