Dr. Sevier

Name: Dr. Sevier
Author: George Washington Cable

by George Washington Cable

Novel of a physician treating rich and poor alike in Civil War-era New Orleans

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George Washington Cable

George Washington Cable was the foremost local colorist of Creole Louisiana, whose fiction celebrated the complex, multiracial culture of New Orleans. His frank treatment of racial injustice made him controversial in the South.

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