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Special thanks, as always, are due to Pamela Areeneaux and the Staff of the Historic New Orleans Collection; to Paul, Bill, Sand, and Norman at Le Monde Creole; to Emily Clark; to Rebecca Witjas; to Kate Miciak; to Laurie Perry; to Stephanie Hall; to Bob Moraski for all his time and knowledge; to Jill and Charles for helping me through much awfulness; and to George. <\/p>\n

“. . . nigger,” muttered a man’s voice, hoarse in the dark of the alley but very clear. <\/p>\n

Benjamin January froze in his tracks. Would this, he wondered, be the occasion on which he’d be hauled into court and hanged-or, more informally, beaten to death on the public street-for the crime of defending himself against a white man’s assault? <\/p>\n

The gas-jet above the American Theater’s stage door was out. A misty glimmer beyond the alley’s narrow mouth showed him that the gambling-parlor at the City Hotel on the other side of Camp Street was still in operation, and above the wet plop of hooves, the creak of harness, a man’s voice sang jerkily in English about Ireland’s em’rald hills. It was past three and bitterly cold. Even in Carnival season, New Orleans had to sleep sometime. <\/p>\n

January considered turning immediately back to the stage door and retreating through the theater and out to the street by one of the side-doors that admitted patrons to its galleries or pit. He was a big man-six feet three-and built on what the slave-dealers at the baracoons along Baronne Street liked to call<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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