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“…Louisiana planters…”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 159.
“…the care they took with their toilet.”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 159.
“…fine ladies chatting with many men…”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 160.
“The slaves on board…”
Buchanan, T. C. (2007). Black life on the Mississippi: Slaves, free Blacks, and the western steamboat world. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, pp. 71, 106, 114.
“…Natchez and Vicksburg…”
Emmet does not indicate the stops they made, but I think it would be largely inevitable that they would disembark during a twelve-day voyage, pushing against the current.
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 159.
“…the eerie light of burning pine knots…”
Emmet, T. A. (1911). Incidents of my life: Professional, literary, social; with services in the cause of Ireland. New York, Putnam, p. 160.
“…first on the Memphis and Charleston line…”
I recreated Anarcha’s possible railroad route from Memphis to Richmond using period maps from the Library of Congress.