Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819
ISBN-10
1572330244
ISBN-13
9781572330245
Category
History
Pages
524
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Thomas N. Ingersoll

Description

"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."--Couv.

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