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Cable’s 1885 Exile from New Orleans Over Racial Essays
George Washington Cable wrote his best books in a New Orleans Garden District home from 1874 to 1884. Then, his life took a sharp turn.
Once a Confederate soldier, Cable had grown to back equal rights for Black Americans. In 1885, he put out two bold essays calling for racial equality and slamming Jim Crow laws…