Following specific Acadian families through the anguish of their removal, he brings to light a tragic chapter in the settlement of America. John Mack Faraghers A Great and Noble Scheme sketches one of the great calamities of the 18th Century: the expulsion of French Acadians (and their Native. Their lands were expropriated by Yankee settlers from New England.ĭrawing on original primary research, John Mack Faragher tells the full story of this expulsion in vivid, gripping prose. 'Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past. They were scattered throughout the British Empire. /rebates/2f97803930513532fGreat-Noble-Scheme-Tragic-Story-03930513582fplp&. On August 25, 1755, the New York Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia: "We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been our secret Enemies.If we Effect their Expulsion, it will be one of the greatest things that ever the English did in America."Īt the time these words were written, New England troops were rounding up some 18,000 French-speaking Acadian residents ("the neutral French") at gunpoint and loading them onto transports, separating parents from children and husbands from wives.
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