2019 Caffery Award Winner
Kelsey Couvillon has been named the winner of the 2019 Jefferson Caffery Research Award. She authored “Attakapas Vigilante Committees: Race, Class, and Extrajudicial Violence in Antebellum Louisiana.” It examines the factors that motivated organized vigilantes in the region now known as Acadiana in the years prior to the Civil War. Kelsey found Barde’s book, Histoire des Comités de Vigilance aux Attakapas, in Special Collections. Other materials held in the archives were vital to her study as well.
