The Fancy Gal (The Fancy Gal Trilogy)

A novel set in the antebellum era depicting slave life as it relates to the sexual exploitation of fancy girls, slave women, and mistresses. Born of mixed parentage in New Orleans in the antebellum era, Isadora DeVille, the principal character in the novel, and many other Creole women or mulattos were acculturated to be "Fancy Girls" or glorified mistresses for white plantation owners. But Miss DeVille is a woman before her time in that she does not define herself by her harlotry alone. Ins...