Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans /

"'Charting the plantation landscape from Natchez to New Orleans' examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: Norman's chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: VanHuss, Laura Kilcer (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Persac, Marie Adrien, > 1823-1873. > Norman's chart of the Lower Mississippi River.
Slaves > Social conditions.
Plantations.
Manners and customs.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Louisiana > Social conditions.
Slaves > Louisiana > Social conditions.
Plantations > Louisiana > History.
Louisiana.
Louisiana > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Louisiana > Social life and customs > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Construction and construct: architecture of the Louisiana plantation / Laura Ewen Blokker
  • The plantation landscape: spectres of an unseen imprint / Suzanne Turner
  • Severed heads to statehouse: the political landscape of the sugar coast / Charles D. Chamberlain III
  • Plantations as landscapes of medicine / Christopher D.E. Willoughby
  • Landscapes of emancipation: plantations and African American liberation / William Horne
  • After Persac: imagining the plantation landscape from the Civil War to the Great Depression / Jochen Wierich
  • The rise and fall of Uncle Sam plantation / Christopher Morris.

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