Mammon and Manon in early New Orleans : the first slave society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 / Thomas N. Ingersoll.

Author/creator Ingersoll, Thomas N.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxxv, 490 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Slavery--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --18th century.
Slavery--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --History. --19th century.
New Orleans (La.)--History. --18th century.
New Orleans (La.)--History. --19th century.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.

Contents "Fatal golden dreams": the founding of New Orleans, 1718-1731 -- Formation of the planter class and a stable order -- Black majority: slaves and free Blacks during the French regime -- Two communities, one creole society: the interweaving of white and Black lives -- A North American slave society: New Orleans in comparative view -- The cession to Spain, the insurrection of 1768, the visitation of Alejandro O'Reilly, and the reconsolidation of the planter class, 1769-1803 -- Blacks, the slave trade, and the advent of sugar, 1769-1803 -- The slave society of Spanish New Orleans in comparative context -- Napoleon's louisianicide and the new republican order: the planter class supreme -- An old regime made anew: slaves and free Blacks in the postcolonial era -- Black Manon in the capital city of the slave South -- Epilogue: Madame Plantou's Mardi Gras mask for New Orleans, 1819.
Local noteLittle-321722--305131027840Y
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [467]-475) and index.
LCCN 98025313
ISBN1572330244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1572330236 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F379.N557 I54 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold