Caribbean New Orleans : empire, race, and the making of a slave society
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Caribbean New Orleans : empire, race, and the making of a slave society
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture , University of North Carolina Press, c2019
- : cloth
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Summary: "... 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"-- Provided by publisher