Marie Therese Coincoin

The Ouachita Parish Public Library's Lakeisha Bosworth reads "Marie Therese Coincoin: Cane River Slave, Slaveowner and Paradox" by Elizabeth Shown Mills.

River Reads selections are adapted with permission from Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times edited by Janet Allured and Judith Gentry, published by the University of Georgia Press.

More information about the Ouachita Parish Public Library's River Reads program is available at  www.oplib.org/riverreads.htm.