Louisiana’s ‘Cajuns’: French Acadians of The South
James Dormon continues our America and the Americas series with a look at the growth of a group of 17th-century settlers in Nova Scotia.
This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of the Acadian farmers - Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
– Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847)
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