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Lost plantation : the rise and fall of Seven Oaks /
Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River across from New Orleans, planter Camille Zeringue transformed a mediocre colonial plantation into a thriving gem of antebellum sugar production, complete with a columned mansion known as Seven Oaks. Under the moss-strewn oaks, the privileged master nu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2006.
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| Colección: | Jefferson historical series ;
v. 16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Petit desert
- The Zeringues and their plantation
- The Zeringue plantation and its grounds
- Life and agricultural production on the Zeringue plantation
- The plantation and the Civil War
- The railroad ruckus
- Pablo Sala and Columbia gardens
- A new war, a new family
- The mansion begins to fade
- Save Seven Oaks
- Life among the ruins
- Future of the past
- Appendix I : chronological chain of title and timeline of major events
- Appendix II : slaves owned by Camille Zeringue
- Appendix III : comparative data of the largest slaveholders in Jefferson Parish
- Appendix IV : brief historical sketch of Zeringue family in Louisiana.