The Moral Climate of French Colonial Louisiana, 1699–1763
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Abstract
The flurry of suits to dissolve marriages in the colony is an accurate barometer of the lax moral climate in frontier Louisiana society. Even Cadillac, Bienville's moralistic successor, appears to have been alienated by the colonial clergy, and though he paid lip service to the church's ideals, he made no genuine effort to alter the colony's lax moral climate. The fact that the forced immigrants of the 1720s would figure so prominently in the last major moral controversy of the French period clearly reflects the persistence of the permissive moral climate established at the dawn of Louisiana colonization. In the absence of moral constraints normally provided by the Catholic Church and reinforced by weekly homilies, a frontier morality developed as successive waves of Canadian and French soldiers and settlers deviated at will from traditional values. Describe the “frontier morality” that emerged in French colonial Louisiana.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.041 | 0.001 |
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