Africans In Colonial Louisiana
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Africans In Colonial Louisiana
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Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1995-07-01
Africans In Colonial Louisiana written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state. In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines--history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore--in her analysis. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. She gives special consideration to race mixture between Africans, Indians, and whites; to the role of slaves in the Natchez Uprising of 1729; to slave unrest and conspiracies, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795; and to the development of communities of runaway slaves in the cypress swamps around New Orleans.
The African American Experience In Louisiana From Africa To The Civil War
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Author : Charles Vincent
language : en
Publisher: University of Louisiana
Release Date : 1999
The African American Experience In Louisiana From Africa To The Civil War written by Charles Vincent and has been published by University of Louisiana this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
French Colonial Louisiana And The Atlantic World
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Author : Bradley G. Bond
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2005-07-01
French Colonial Louisiana And The Atlantic World written by Bradley G. Bond and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-01 with History categories.
French colonial Louisiana has failed to occupy a place in the historic consciousness of the United States, perhaps owing to its short duration (1699--1762) and its standing outside the dominant narrative of the British colonies in North America. This anthology seeks to locate early Louisiana in its proper place, bringing together a broad range of scholarship that depicts a complex and vibrant sphere. Colonial Louisiana comprised the vast center of what would become the United States. It lay between Spanish, British, and French colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and between woodland and eastern plains Indians. As such, it provided a meeting place for Europeans, Africans, and native Americans, functioning as a crossroads between the New World and other worlds. While acknowledging colonial Louisiana's peripheral position in U.S. and Atlantic World history, this volume demonstrates that the colony stands at the thematic center of the shared narratives and historiographies of diverse places. Through its twelve essays, French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World tells a whole story, the story of a place that belongs to the historic narrative of the Atlantic World.
Spaniards Planters And Slaves
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Author : Gilbert C. Din
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1999
Spaniards Planters And Slaves written by Gilbert C. Din and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a part of Louisiana's culture during the years of Spanish rule. Gilbert C. Din challenges the idea that conditions under the Spaniards differed little from the years of French rule and examines how local culture merged with colonial government and residual laws to create a slave system unlike any other in the Deep South. Din presents many aspects of the slavery issue, including a look at the French system, conflicts between planters who favored the established system and governors who promoted the less stringent Spanish laws, and the political favoritism that sought to benefit the wealthy New Orleans district. Din also discusses the role of the Catholic Church and debates the commonly held idea that the church's influence made Spanish slavery less brutal, asserting instead that its role in most areas was insignificant and largely observational. Using government documents from archives in Spain and Louisiana, Din paints a historically accurate portrait of a time when the blended culture of the eighteenth-century colony resulted in conflict and turmoil. Most important are the Papeles Procedentes de la Isla de Cuba, a collection of colonial documents that illustrate not only the actions but also the personalities of the governors and how they implemented changes and handled problems within the slave system. Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is the first in its field to capture the years of Spanish rule as a specific and unique point in Louisiana's history of slavery. Din's research uncovers both the complexities of the slavery issue and the Spanish heritage that ultimatelyhelped to shape the slave system of the future state. It is an ideal study for anyone interested in the history of both colonial Louisiana and slavery itself.
Slavery And African Ethnicities In The Americas
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Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007
Slavery And African Ethnicities In The Americas written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on a lifetime of study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora, many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture.
Louisiana
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Author : Cecile Vidal
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014
Louisiana written by Cecile Vidal and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World offers an exceptional collaboration between American, Canadian, and European historians who explore the many ways and means of colonial Louisiana's relations with the rest of the Atlantic world.
Haunted By Slavery
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Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
language : en
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Haunted By Slavery written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and has been published by Haymarket Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Political Science categories.
The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical history. Born in 1929 New Orleans to left-wing Jewish parents, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's life has spanned nearly a century of engagement in anti-racist, internationalist political activism. In this moving and instructive chronicle of her remarkable life, Midlo Hall recounts her experiences as an anti-racist activist, a Communist Party militant, and a scholar of slavery in the Americas, as well as the wife and collaborator of the renowned African-American author and Communist leader Harry Haywood. Telling the story of her life against the backdrop of the important political and social developments of the 20th century, Midlo Hall offers new insights about a critical period in the history of labor and civil rights movements in the United States. Detailing everything from Midlo Hall's co-founding of the only inter-racial youth organization in the South when she was 16-years-old, to her pioneering work establishing digital slave databases, to her own struggles against cruel and pervasive sexism, Haunted by Slavery is a gripping account of a life defined by profound dedication to a cause.
Creole New Orleans
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Author : Arnold Richard Hirsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Creole New Orleans written by Arnold Richard Hirsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social Science categories.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, in her account of the origins of New Orleans' free black population, offers a new approach to the early history of Africans in colonial Louisiana. The second part of the book focuses on the challenge of incorporating New Orleans into the United States. As Paul F. LaChance points out, the French immigrants who arrived after the Louisiana Purchase slowed the Americanization process by preserving the city's creole culture. Joseph Tregle then presents a clear, concise account of the clash that occurred between white creoles and the many white Americans who during the 1800s migrated to the city. His analysis demonstrates how race finally brought an accommodation between the white creole and American leaders. The third section centers on the evolution of the city's race relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Creole
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Author : Sybil Kein
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2000-08
Creole written by Sybil Kein and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08 with History categories.
The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderstanding. Now both aspects of this unique people and culture are given thorough, illuminating scrutiny in Creole, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary history of Louisiana's Creole population. Written by scholars, many of Creole descent, the volume wrangles with the stuff of legend and conjecture while fostering an appreciation for the Creole contribution to the American mosaic. The collection opens with a historically relevant perspective found in Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's 1916 piece "People of Color of Louisiana" and continues with contemporary writings: Joan M. Martin on the history of quadroon balls; Michel Fabre and Creole expatriates in France; Barbara Rosendale Duggal with a debiased view of Marie Laveau; Fehintola Mosadomi and the downtrodden roots of Creole grammar; Anthony G. Barthelemy on skin color and racism as an American legacy; Caroline Senter on Reconstruction poets of political vision; and much more. Violet Harrington Bryan, Lester Sullivan, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Sybil Kein, Mary Gehman, Arthi A. Anthony, and Mary L. Morton offer excellent commentary on topics that range from the lifestyles of free women of color in the nineteenth century to the Afro-Caribbean links to Creole cooking. By exploring the vibrant yet marginalized culture of the Creole people across time, Creole goes far in diminishing past and present stereotypes of this exuberant segment of our society. A study that necessarily embraces issues of gender, race and color, class, and nationalism, it speaks to the tensions of an increasingly ethnically mixed mainstream America.
Born On The Kitchen Floor In Bois Mallet
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Author : Lovey Marie Guillory
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-11-11
Born On The Kitchen Floor In Bois Mallet written by Lovey Marie Guillory and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with History categories.
This is the story of a free black Creole family with beginnings in French Louisiana in 1740. It's a story of struggle and triumph with an indomitable cast of characters. The narrative traces the family's beginnings from the union between a litigious runaway slave of African descent and a conniving French settler who is an early colonizer in the Louisiana territory. The book is a tribute to the slave matriarch who managed to obtain and secure her own freedom and that of her four children who advanced quickly from being slaves to slave owners. Their children become members of a land owning elite black planter class which ultimately finds itself out of place in the slave holding Deep South with the dawn of the Civil War. The book explores the plight of generations of the family's fight to remain free and in the period immediately before and after the Civil War. Some become guerilla fighters and resist Confederate attempts to induct them into service. Others go in exile in Haiti to escape the vigilante movement in Louisiana. In the post-Reconstruction period and most of the twentieth century, the family is up against the Jim Crow laws and periods of pervasive violence against blacks. Discrimination is pervasive and the effect is harsh but the family does not give up. Land is preserved and with it independence. When the state fails to provide schools, the family put up its own schools. The fight for civil rights goes on. They march, they sit-in, they find a way to educate their children and protect them from the harshest effects of discrimination. The determination to remain free and the tradition of land ownership are the glue that holds the family together throughout the saga. The author follows leading characters that preserved these traditions over a period of more than 200 years and passed them on to her generation.