Place to Live in Peace

Place to Live in Peace

Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

Wilson, Evelyn L.

University Press of Mississippi

06/2024

277

Dura

Inglês

9781496852168

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Chapter 2. Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish
Chapter 3. Land Sales, Loans, and Litigation
Chapter 4. Earning a Living
Chapter 5. Black-White Personal Relationships
Chapter 6. And Then the War Came
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1850s; Civil War; slavery; antebellum rural South; New Orleans; Mississippi River; land ownership; integration; community; John Hope Franklin; emancipation; St. Francisville; cotton sugarcane production; freedom; slaveholders; Bayou Sara; Saint-Domingue refugees; neighborhood; Grace Episcopal Church; William Chew; court records; George Douse; government documents; legal citations; Adelle v. Beauregard; Nelly Wooten; restauranteurs; quadroon balls