Mammon and manon in early New Orleans: the first slave society in the Deep South, 1718 - 1819

"Since Louisiana fell under the administration of France and Spain before becoming a U.S. territory in 1803, the case of New Orleans offers an opportunity to test the long-standing thesis that slave regimes under the French, Spanish, and Anglo-Americans were significantly different. Ingersoll f...

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Main Author: Ingersoll, Thomas N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville Univ. of Tennessee Press 1999
Edition:1. ed.
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Summary:"Since Louisiana fell under the administration of France and Spain before becoming a U.S. territory in 1803, the case of New Orleans offers an opportunity to test the long-standing thesis that slave regimes under the French, Spanish, and Anglo-Americans were significantly different. Ingersoll finds that, by contrast, the city's development was remarkably continuous, affected mainly by the changing volume of its slave trade between 1719 and 1808 and thereafter primarily by urban conditions."--Cover.
Physical Description:XXV, 490 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:1572330236
1572330244

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