From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nathalie DessensSeries:Southern DissentPublish date:2010-11-15Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of FloridaISBN-13:9780813035673ISBN-10:813035678UPC:9780813035673Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Caribbean & West Indies, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SCAHQH932E
From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences
Dessens examines the legacy of approximately 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and free people of color--who settled in Louisiana between 1791 and 1815. Forced to flee their French Caribbean colony following a slave rebellion that gave birth to the Haitian Republic in January 1804, they spread throughout the Caribbean and along the North American Atlantic coast. Forming a relatively...
Series: Southern Dissent
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of FloridaISBN-13:9780813035673ISBN-10:813035678UPC:9780813035673Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Caribbean & West Indies, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SCAHQH932E
Nathalie Dessens is professor of American history and civilization at the University of Toulouse. She is the author of Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (UPF).
Publisher: University Press of Florida
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