Reproduction of the original: Jaquelina by Miller Mrs. Alex. McVeigh

Legend of the Dinosaur Tail is one of a series of four fictional books, a trilogy with a prequel. It is of a new breed of humans post World War III called the pale ones, their various conversions, and the start of their society. Legend of the Dinosaur Tail introduces you to the characters and sets the current events, leading to the survival of the new underground civilization. It is a fast-paced series with many plots and twists. Once you pick it up, you will not want to put it down, and you will be looking forward to the next book in the series. The second book of the series will be called Danger in the Land of Grandeur; the third of the series will be called Life in the Legendary City of Gold. And finally, the prequel will be called The Transformation of Life to Legend.

During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans’ large, influential, and propertied free black—or libre—population, one that was unique in the South. Hanger examines the issues libres confronted as they individually and collectively contested their ambiguous status in a complexly stratified society. Drawing on rare archives in Louisiana and Spain, Hanger reconstructs the world of late-eighteenth-century New Orleans from the perspective of its free black residents, and documents the common experiences and enterprises that helped solidify libres’ sense of group identity. Over the course of three and a half decades of Spanish rule, free people of African descent in New Orleans made their greatest advances in terms of legal rights and privileges, demographic expansion, vocational responsibilities, and social standing. Although not all blacks in Spanish New Orleans yearned for expanded opportunity, Hanger shows that those who did were more likely to succeed under Spain’s dominion than under the governance of France, Great Britain, or the United States. The advent of U.S. rule brought restrictions to both manumission and free black activities in New Orleans. Nonetheless, the colonial libre population became the foundation for the city’s prosperous and much acclaimed Creoles of Color during the antebellum era.