The Macartys: A Biracial Family in New Orleans
History / Heritage - Lecture/Discussion
Sunday, May 20, 2012
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Worcester Art Museum
Conference Room
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
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This lecture by Carolyn Morrow Long accompanies the exhibition "In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans." Hudson, born in 1811, was the son of a New Orleans free woman of color and an English merchant. The circumstances of Julien Hudsons birth were unusual only in that his white father was English and not a New Orleanian of French or Spanish descent. Such men regularly formed marriage-like relationships with free woman of color, established stable families, and acknowledged and provided well for their children.
The Macartys were one of the most numerous, wealthy, and powerful families in New Orleans. Longs research for her biography of Delphine Macarty Lalaurie: "Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House," revealed that her father, uncles, and male cousins had such relationships and produced a closely intertwined community of well-to-do, educated, free-colored merchants and professionals. The best known of them was the musician and composer Eugène Victor Macarty who, like Julien Hudson, received his training in Paris and returned to New Orleans to resume his career. Macarty lived into the late nineteenth century and suffered greatly from the racist backlash that followed Reconstruction.
Carolyn Morrow Long is retired from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. She is the author of 'Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce' and 'A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau'. She lives in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans.
Event is free with Museum admission, and will be followed by a book signing with the author. Books for sale in the Worcester Art Museum shop.
Funding generously provided by MassHumanities.
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
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Suggested Audiences:
Elders, Adult, College, High School
E-mail:
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The Macartys: A Biracial Family in New Orleans
History / Heritage - Lecture/Discussion
Sunday, May 20, 2012
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Worcester Art Museum
Conference Room
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Google Maps - MapQuest
This lecture by Carolyn Morrow Long accompanies the exhibition "In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans." Hudson, born in 1811, was the son of a New Orleans free woman of color and an English merchant. The circumstances of Julien Hudsons birth were unusual only in that his white father was English and not a New Orleanian of French or Spanish descent. Such men regularly formed marriage-like relationships with free woman of color, established stable families, and acknowledged and provided well for their children.
The Macartys were one of the most numerous, wealthy, and powerful families in New Orleans. Longs research for her biography of Delphine Macarty Lalaurie: "Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House," revealed that her father, uncles, and male cousins had such relationships and produced a closely intertwined community of well-to-do, educated, free-colored merchants and professionals. The best known of them was the musician and composer Eugène Victor Macarty who, like Julien Hudson, received his training in Paris and returned to New Orleans to resume his career. Macarty lived into the late nineteenth century and suffered greatly from the racist backlash that followed Reconstruction.
Carolyn Morrow Long is retired from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. She is the author of 'Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce' and 'A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau'. She lives in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans.
Event is free with Museum admission, and will be followed by a book signing with the author. Books for sale in the Worcester Art Museum shop.
Funding generously provided by MassHumanities.
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
Suggested Audiences: Elders, Adult, College, High School
E-mail: information@worcesterart.org
Last Modified: May 8, 2012 at 8:25 AM
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