ISBN:
9781603444378
,
1603444378
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 216 p.)
,
maps
Edition:
1st ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest no. 29
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Burton, H. Sophie, 1966- Colonial Natchitoches
DDC:
306/.0976365
Keywords:
Frontier and pioneer life Louisiana
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Natchitoches
;
Community life History
;
18th century
;
Louisiana
;
Natchitoches
;
Creoles History
;
18th century
;
Louisiana
;
Natchitoches
;
Free African Americans History
;
18th century
;
Louisiana
;
Natchitoches
;
Slaves History
;
18th century
;
Louisiana
;
Natchitoches
;
French Americans History
;
18th century
;
Louisiana
;
Natchitoches
;
Creoles History 18th century
;
French Americans History 18th century
;
Community life History 18th century
;
Free African Americans History 18th century
;
Frontier and pioneer life
;
Slaves History 18th century
;
Creoles
;
Economic history
;
Free African Americans
;
French Americans
;
Frontier and pioneer life
;
Race relations
;
Slaves
;
Social conditions
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Community life
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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History
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Natchitoches (La.) History
;
18th century
;
Natchitoches (La.) Race relations
;
History
;
18th century
;
Natchitoches (La.) Social conditions
;
18th century
;
Natchitoches (La.) Economic conditions
;
18th century
;
Natchitoches (La.) Economic conditions 18th century
;
Natchitoches (La.) History 18th century
;
Natchitoches (La.) Race relations 18th century
;
History
;
Natchitoches (La.) Social conditions 18th century
;
Louisiana ; Natchitoches
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Front Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. An Overview of Colonial Natchitoches; 2. Creating Hegemony in Colonial Natchitoches: The French Creole Community; 3. Slavery in Colonial Natchitoches: The African Creole Community; 4. Free People of Color: A Dependent Segment of Colonial Natchitoches; 5. The Indian Trade in Colonial Natchitoches; 6. Plantation Agriculture in Colonial Natchitoches; 7. The Ranching Industry in Colonial Natchitoches; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
Abstract:
Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub between the well-supplied settlers and the isolated Spaniards and Indians of Texas. Its critical economic and diplomatic role made it the most important community on the Louisiana-Texas frontier during the colonial era. Despite the community's critical role under French and then Spanish rule, Colonial Natchitoches is the first thorough study of its society and economy. Founded in 1714, four years before New Orleans, Natchitoches developed a cr
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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