Louisa Picquet
(????-1896)
American slave
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Louisa Picquet (c. 1828, Columbia, South Carolina - June 11, 1896, New Richmond, Ohio). The story of her life was published in Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life. This narrative focus on aspects of her life that manifest due to heritage as an octoroon. The work also highlights the sexual exploitation that the females slaves experienced at the hands of the white men. In her quest to find and free her mother, she met Hiram Mattison who helped her publish her story to raise money to purchase her mother.
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