An Accursed Race Elizabeth Gaskell 9781468162554 Books
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An Accursed Race
An Accursed Race Elizabeth Gaskell 9781468162554 Books
This is a non fiction work which could be more an essay than a story. I have never heard of the "Cagots"and their plights which extended for at least a thousand years. It appears these people were just the same as any other human being and they only could be recognized by their family names. Because of superstitions and false information this race was cast as undesirable and for the most part denied basic human rights. Mrs. Gaskill was not going to pass up an opportunity to pick up the gauntlet and again expand her cause as a champion of the underdogs. Very informative and interesting work.Product details
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An Accursed Race Elizabeth Gaskell 9781468162554 Books Reviews
There existed in France a group of people called the Cagots. No one was certain where they came from nor who they were but they were outcasts. They looked mostly like everyone else (except that they had attached rather than free ear lobes, were said to smell bad and some of them had coarse features) but for unknown reasons they were outed, oppressed and cursed.
This is a record of those people, some conjectures about their origin and a note on their disappearance into the general population.
Very interesting read about a bygone history.
While I heart Gaskell as a Victorian era underdog in a universe of starlets, An Accused Race might be a little too much on the modern reader's patience, as Gaskell is simply engaging in what was then a reformist treatise of her day, decrying the (mostly baffling) oppression of the Cagots in Europe, and while it is nice to be educated about historic social stigma, this is not a narrative that offers much to a lay reader. Gaskell's own bafflement about why the Cagots were so stigmatized doesn't necessarily make for relevant engagement. While it might be useful for the scholar, unless you have sampled all the free downloads and don't care what you're sifting through on screen, this is a skip.
I love history, so this book was very interesting to me. History repeats itself, and people who are not taught to value all life will inevitably come up with a reason to hate, persecute, or exploit some group of people. I think it is important to teach how this happens, so we can recognize it in today's society.
Very fascinating read - A brief history of a forgotten people from the Old World. I wonder where their descendants are today.
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A short story by Elizabeth Gaskell in almost an essay form for history class. The accursed race refers to a French/Spanish population who were - as ever very unjustly - discriminated and persecuted for centuries.
This is a non fiction work which could be more an essay than a story. I have never heard of the "Cagots"and their plights which extended for at least a thousand years. It appears these people were just the same as any other human being and they only could be recognized by their family names. Because of superstitions and false information this race was cast as undesirable and for the most part denied basic human rights. Mrs. Gaskill was not going to pass up an opportunity to pick up the gauntlet and again expand her cause as a champion of the underdogs. Very informative and interesting work.
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