Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2012 Wedding belles and enslaved brides: Louisiana plantation weddings in fact, fiction and folklore Cherry Lynne Levin Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. WEDDING BELLES AND ENSLAVED BRIDES: LOUISIANA PLANTATION WEDDINGS IN FACT, FICTION AND FOLKLORE A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In The Department of English By Cherry Lynne Pyburn Levin B.A., University of Houston, 1975. M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2000 M.A. Texas A&M University, 2004 May, 2012 Acknowledgments The following people have taught me much about literature and folklore as well as southern studies and I am deeply grateful for their willing donation of time and energy to see this project to completion. My Dissertation Director, John Wharton Lowe and Emeritus Professor Frank deCaro always took time to listen and give suggestions.