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Madame Josephine Decuir

By Jordan Hammon, edited by Adam D. Coste, Jessica Dauterive, and Lauren Smith
By the 1870s, steamboats carried passengers up and down the Mississippi River, docking in the ports of major cities like New Orleans. Here, in July 1872, Captain John Benson denied Josephine Decuir née Dubuclet entry into the women’s cabin on the…
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