| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans. By Stephen J. Ochs. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xxiv, 304 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2531-8.)

This book's dust jacket describes it as one that "combines social, African American, Civil War and church history" in order to "picture the antebellum Afro-Creole society, the black military experience, and the complex relationship between Afro-Creoles and Roman Catholicism." Rarely do books meet such high aspirations, yet this one certainly does. Well written and impressively researched in social, military, and religious history, Stephen J. Ochs's book relates a tragic yet inspiring story of two quite different individuals who, while they never seemed to have met, fought for equal rights regardless of color. 1

Born a slave in Plaquemines Parish on August 25, 1825, André Cailloux had moved to New Orleans by 1830 and there he was raised in a Catholic Afro-Creole environment. For unknown reasons, his owner freed him in 1846, and the next year André married Louise Felicie Coulon, herself a manumitted slave. During the antebellum era, Cailloux provided for his family as a cigar retailer. A natural leader, he raised troops for Confederate service after the outbreak of the Civil War. . . .

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