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Saturday, January 5, 2008

And here a glimpse of the past: Louisiana’s ‘Casket Girls’...

On about this date in 1728, the first of Louisiana ’s ‘casket girls’ arrived from France with namesake caskets of clothing given them as inducements. On arrival, they were supervised and ‘matrimonially distributed’ by Ursuline nuns. Herbert Asbury’s The French Quarter: An Informal History of New... Sign in to see full entry.

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