Eliza McHatton Ripley

Frontispiece of her book with an image of her by Theodore Sydney Moïse

Eliza McHatton Ripley (1832–1912), born Elizabeth Chinn, was an American writer who wrote about her experiences on a Louisiana plantation at the onset of the American Civil War when her family fled to New Orleans, Texas, Mexico, and Cuba[1][2] She also wrote the book Social Life in Old New Orleans.[3]

She married her first husband and became Elizabeth McHatton[4] before being widowed in 1865 and remarrying to Colonel Dwight Ripley in 1873.[5]

Some of the correspondence of her family still exists[6][7] including the description of a rebellion of Chinese laborers on her family's plantation in protest at the inadequacy of their rations.[8]

References

  1. ↑ From flag to flag : a woman's adventures and experiences in the South during the war, in Mexico, and in Cuba.
  2. ↑ "Ripley, Eliza Moore Chinn McHatton. "From Flag to Flag; A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South during the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba"".
  3. ↑ Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood. Dodo Press. May 2009. ISBN 978-1-4099-8191-6.
  4. ↑ Guterl, Matthew Pratt (11 March 2013). American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-07228-2.
  5. ↑ Sternberg, Mary Ann (15 April 2013). Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-5063-4.
  6. ↑ Wong, Edlie L. (23 October 2015). Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship. NYU Press. ISBN 978-1-4798-5657-2.
  7. ↑ Nash, Steven E.; Stewart, Bruce E. (2019). Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5511-5.
  8. ↑ López, Kathleen M. (10 June 2013). Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-0714-6.
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