In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe by Leslie S. Klinger

Author:Leslie S. Klinger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus

1 This is the name of the plantation, not a town.

2 A basket, short for corbeille de marriage (wedding presents); traditionally, French customs dictated that the husband give his wife expensive wedding gifts in an elaborate basket.

3 Not Asian, as this would imply today, but rather a light-skinned African-American.

4 Literally, a “pig in milk,” a suckling pig (a delicacy).

5 La Blanche (the “white one”), it will be seen, is a slave-woman; historically, slave-owners felt free to have extramarital sex with their slaves, and Armand may well have done so and continued to do so.

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