No Other World Author:Norman German Natchitoches landowner Pierre Metoyer induces his slave, Marie Thérèze, called Coincoin, into believing they can live in a world of their own, one where the color of their skin does not matter. — NO OTHER WORLD, an engrossing, fictionalized account of the unusual life of Coincoin, dramatizes the peculiarities of slavery in the late ... more »1700s and questions the nature of freedom. Pierre and Coincoin’s illegal relationship resulted in the births of ten children who had to be purchased by their father because infants followed the status of their mother. Responding to family pressure, Pierre freed Coincoin and married a white woman, ironically also named Marie Thérèze. Coincoin became a slaveholder herself and built her own empire, Yucca Plantation, now called Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana.« less