New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal : Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s /

"Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana, were two river towns created ex-nihilo by the French, the former in West Africa and the latter in North America, at the time of French early imperial expansion in the Atlantic world. Both became important port cities of in the French Empire. Sa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Vidal, Cecile (Editor ), Thioub, Ibrahima (Editor ), Clark, Emily, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery.
Race relations.
Port cities.
Blacks > Social conditions.
Port cities > Case studies.
Blacks > Colonies > France.
Slavery > Senegal > Saint-Louis > History.
Slavery > Louisiana > New Orleans (La.) > History.
Blacks > Senegal > Saint-Louis > Social conditions.
Blacks > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions.
Senegal > Saint-Louis.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
France.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History.
Saint-Louis (Senegal) > History.
New Orleans (La.) > History.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Negotiating slavery and freedom
  • The role of slavery in the economic and social history of Saint-Louis, Senegal / Martin A. Klein
  • Wives, soldiers, and slaves: The Atlantic world of Marie Baude, la femme Pinet / Jessica Marie Johnson
  • The streets, the barracks, and the hospital: public space, social control, and cross-racial interactions among soldiers and slaves in French New Orleans / Cecile Vidal
  • Part 2. Elusive citizenship
  • The Prison of Saint-Louis: French expansion, social control, and the early development of the penitentiary institution in Senegal, circa 1834-1895 / Ibra Sene
  • Citizenship and the abolition of slavery after 1848: conflicts of national allegiance among the French in New Orleans / Marieke Polfliet
  • Asserting citizenship and refusing stigma: New Orleans equal-rights activists interpret 1803 and 1848 / Rebecca J. Scott
  • French citizenship and colonial rule in Saint-Louis, Senegal / Larissa Kopytoff
  • Part 3. Mythic persistence
  • Transatlantic currents of orientalism: New Orleans quadroons and Saint-Louis signares / Emily Clark and Hilary Jones
  • Reflections of Senegambia in New Orleans Jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn.

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