NMLP P-036033 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life

Louisa Picquet (as told to Hiram Mattison) · Published by the author (New York) · 1861

The pamphlet is structured as a transcribed question-and-answer narrative, with Mattison's commentary and supporting documentary evidence interspersed among Picquet's first-person testimony about slavery, concubinage, and her eventual self-purchase in New Orleans

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036033 for "Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life" by Louisa Picquet (as told to Hiram Mattison) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036033, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).