Exile without an end: the first ethnic cleansing in American history.(A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland)(Book Review)

Reason | November 1, 2005| | Copyright

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland, by John Mack Faragher,, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 592 pages, $28.95

"WHERE IS THE thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers--/ Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands / Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?" So asked Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his epic 1847 poem Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie. His answer was fittingly grim: "Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed! ...

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