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Caribbean New Orleans : empire, race, and the making of a slave society / Cécile Vidal

Vidal, Cécile, 1967- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

xv, 533 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Caribbean New Orleans / Vidal, Cécile (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-4696-4518-6 ; 1-4696-4518-1

978-1-4696-4519-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

OCoLC: 1120141515     

HT1107

306.3/620976335     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*New Orleans, La. ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1700-1799     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Slavery -- West Indies, French -- History ; Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History ; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century ; New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History ; France -- Colonies -- America -- History ; New Orleans (La.) -- History -- Social conditions

" ... Offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cécile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles, especially Saint-Domingue, which shaped the city's development through the eighteenth century"--