Romantic days in the early republic . ary circles,while those who returned to New Orleans andbecame successful musicians, merchants, realestate brokers and the like had as much ob-jection to associating with the blacks on termsof equality as any white man could have toassociating with them. At the Orleans theatrethey attended their mothers, wives and sistersin the second tier, reserved exclusively for them,and where no white person of either sex wouldhave been permitted to intrude. But they werenot admitted to the quadroon balls, and whenwhite gentlemen visited their families it was theaccepte
Romantic days in the early republic . ary circles,while those who returned to New Orleans andbecame successful musicians, merchants, realestate brokers and the like had as much ob-jection to associating with the blacks on termsof equality as any white man could have toassociating with them. At the Orleans theatrethey attended their mothers, wives and sistersin the second tier, reserved exclusively for them,and where no white person of either sex wouldhave been permitted to intrude. But they werenot admitted to the quadroon balls, and whenwhite gentlemen visited their families it was theaccepted etiquette for them never to be quadroons of the humbler classes were me-chanics, and were most respectable; they gener-ally married women of their own status andled quiet lives in middle-class comfort. Among the Creole women Mrs. EdwardLivingston was long the acknowledged in the island of St. Domingo in 1782, ofancient and distinguished French family, sheearly acquired a passion for books and taught WW ?IS.
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