"Yellow Jack is the story of two courageous women, Hortense Duperier and her Haitian slave F???elicit???e, who emerged from their sheltered existence to meet the challenge of a deadly epidemic that threatened to wipe their community off the map. At the start of the year 1839, the town of New Iberia on the Bayou Teche in south Louisiana appeared poised for prosperity. Acadian, French, English and American immigrants joined the original Spanish settlers. Steamships plied the Bayou, turning at the landing on the right bank ...
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"Yellow Jack is the story of two courageous women, Hortense Duperier and her Haitian slave F???elicit???e, who emerged from their sheltered existence to meet the challenge of a deadly epidemic that threatened to wipe their community off the map. At the start of the year 1839, the town of New Iberia on the Bayou Teche in south Louisiana appeared poised for prosperity. Acadian, French, English and American immigrants joined the original Spanish settlers. Steamships plied the Bayou, turning at the landing on the right bank before loading up with the products of the fertile land to send to market in New Orleans. On the left bank, a leading citizen Fr???ed???erick Duperier, enjoyed a gracious life in a grand brick house with his privileged wife, three children, and a number of slaves, Almost overnight, an untimely death, financial reverses, and signs of a dreaded yellow fever epidemic changed everything. Utilizing F???elicit???e's traditional remedies, the women defied common medical practice to lead the response. Neither they nor the town were ever the same"--
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