Summary of Betsy Prioleau's Diamonds and Deadlines

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 The woman who was watching the spectacle was Mrs. Frank Leslie, a journalist and descendent of Myles Standish. She was visiting her childhood home for the first time in nearly forty years. The Dauphine Street mansion seemed bigger than she remembered it.

#2 Miriam’s father, Auguste-Firmin, was born into a bizarre colonial culture in Saint-Domingue. He fled to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and four children, and opened a tobacco shop on King Street. In Philadelphia, he started a candle factory that failed within five years.

#3 The venture in Alabama was a disaster from start to finish. The settlers were not prepared for the challenges of the frontier, and they built rickety sixteen-by-twenty-eight-foot log cabins of poor lumber. They suffered repeated crop failures and epidemics, and life was harsh.

#4 Miriam’s birth was a mystery. Her parents, Charles and Caroline, were married in 1820, but they had financial difficulties soon after their marriage. In 1832, Charles took the remaining assets to New Orleans with a large entourage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669384328

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The woman who was watching the spectacle was Mrs. Frank Leslie, a journalist and descendent of Myles Standish. She was visiting her childhood home for the first time in nearly forty years. The Dauphine Street mansion seemed bigger than she remembered it.

#2

Miriam’s father, Auguste-Firmin, was born into a bizarre colonial culture in Saint-Domingue. He fled to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and four children, and opened a tobacco shop on King Street. In Philadelphia, he started a candle factory that failed within five years.

#3

The venture in Alabama was a disaster from start to finish. The settlers were not prepared for the challenges of the frontier, and they built rickety sixteen-by-twenty-eight-foot log cabins of poor lumber. They suffered repeated crop failures and epidemics, and life was harsh.

#4

Miriam’s birth was a mystery. Her parents, Charles and Caroline, were married in 1820, but they had financial difficulties soon after their marriage. In 1832, Charles took the remaining assets to New Orleans with a large entourage.

#5

The more likely candidate for Miriam’s birth mother is one of the enslaved women Charles brought with him to New Orleans, as contestants to Miriam’s will charged after her death. The Follins and Miriam had every reason to suppress the evidence.

#6

Miriam’s childhood in New Orleans was supposed to be idyllic. She lived in a house with a yard and balcony, and had the company of both a friendly stepbrother and her father. But soon after they arrived, her father was subpoenaed to appear in court in South Carolina on charges of reckless misuse of Caroline Trescot’s estate.

#7

Miriam’s