Louisiana Anthology Podcast

601. Cherry Levin, Part 1

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 601. Part 1 of our conversation with Cherry Levin about her research into Antebellum weddings in
Louisiana Creole plantations. She wrote a dissertation at LSU entitled, “Wedding Belles and Enslaved Brides: Louisiana Plantation Weddings in Fact, Fiction and Folklore.” “Along with rites of passage marking birth and death, wedding rituals played an important role in ordering social life on antebellum Louisiana plantations, not only for elite white families but also for the enslaved. Autobiographical accounts of plantation weddings written by Louisiana women yield considerable insights on the importance of weddings for Louisiana plantation women before and especially during the Civil War. Moreover, information contained within the Louisiana Writers’ Project narratives reveal various types of wedding ritual used to unite the enslaved on Louisiana plantations despite laws and codes that prohibited slave unions. In contrast to these historical accounts, plantation weddings in the fictional imagination reveal that the figure of the bride reflects careful authorial negotiation of racialized and gendered ideologies.” (Levin).  “A
distinguished graduate of the Association of Bridal Consultants’
Professional Development Program, Cherry has planned and coordinated
over two hundred weddings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, the
Wine Country and Lake Tahoe. She has also planned weddings in San Luis
Obispo, Texas and locations throughout southeastern Louisiana from Baton
Rouge to New Orleans” (Retrospect Images).
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