叛逆的法国女性被流放到殖民地路易斯安那州并在密西西比河谷获得权力的秘密历史
1719年，一艘名为“叛变的女人”的船从法国的勒阿弗尔港驶向密西西比河。它装载着这个新生的法国殖民地急需的商品，但它的主要商品是一种新的出口商品：女性。
这些女性被错误地指控犯有性罪行，她们是囚犯，被铐在船舱里。在这132名女性中，只有62人幸存。但这些女性在殖民地为自己开辟了一个在法国是不可能的地方，她们缔结了有利的婚姻并积累了财产。许多人在新奥尔良的建设和路易斯安那州、阿拉巴马州、阿肯色州、伊利诺伊州和密西西比州的定居中发挥了重要作用。
通过一系列令人印象深刻的资料，让这些女性的声音重回历史记录，叛变的女性向我们介绍了海湾南部的开国元勋。
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women.
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 France, making advantageous marriages and accumulating property. Many were instrumental in the building of New Orleans and in settling Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, and Mississippi.
Drawing on an impressive range of sources to restore the voices of these women to the historical record, Mutinous Women introduces us to the Gulf South’s Founding Mothers.
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