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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors - A Young Reader's History (Hardcover)
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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors - A Young Reader's History (Hardcover)
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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History traces
the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic
group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and
high-school students, it will prove appealing and informative as
well to adult readers seeking a one-volume exploration of these
remarkable people and their predecessors. The narrative follows the
Cajuns' early ancestors, the Acadians, from seventeenth-century
France to Nova Scotia, where they flourished until British soldiers
expelled them in a tragic event called Le Grand Derangement (The
Great Upheaval)--an episode regarded by many historians as an
instance of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Up to one-half of the
Acadian population died from disease, starvation, exposure, or
outright violence in the expulsion. Nearly three thousand survivors
journeyed through the thirteen American colonies to
Spanish-controlled Louisiana. There they resettled, intermarried
with members of the local population, and evolved into the Cajun
people, who today number over a half-million. Since their arrival
in Louisiana, the Cajuns have developed an unmistakable identity
and a strong sense of ethnic pride. In recent decades they have
contributed their exotic cuisine and accordion-and-fiddle dance
music to American popular culture. Cajuns and Their Acadian
Ancestors: A Young Reader's History includes numerous images and
over a dozen sidebars on topics ranging from Cajun music to Mardi
Gras. Shane K. Bernard is historian and curator of McIlhenny
Company, producers of TABASCOA(R) brand pepper sauce, and Avery
Island, Inc. He is the author of Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm
and Blues; The Cajuns: Americanization of a People; and TABASCO(R):
An Illustrated History.
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