TY  - GEN
T1  - Caribbean New Orleans : empire, race, and the making of a slave society
T2  - North Carolina scholarship online.
A1  - Vidal, Cécile
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1155494512
AB  - Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a portrait of the city and an investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there, and the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cecile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles which shaped the city's development through the 18th century. She urges us to rethink our usual divisions of racial systems into mainland and Caribbean categories. Drawing on New Orleans's rich court records as a way to capture the words and actions of its inhabitants, Vidalexplores the challenges that slow economic development, Native American proximity, imperial rivalry, and the urban environment posed to a social order that was predicated on slave labor and racial hierarchy.
OP  - 533
NO  - Previously issued in print: 2019.
NO  - Previously issued in print: Williamsburg, Virginia: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2019.
CN  - HT1107 .V53 2020
SN  - 9781469645209
SN  - 1469645203
SN  - 9781469645186
KW  - Slavery : West Indies, French : History.
KW  - Slavery : Louisiana : New Orleans : History.
KW  - New Orleans (La.) : Social conditions : 18th century.
KW  - New Orleans (La.) : Race relations : History.
KW  - France : Colonies : America : History.
KW  - New Orleans (La.) : History : Social conditions.
KW  - French colonies
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - America
KW  - Lesser Antilles : West Indies, French
KW  - Louisiana : New Orleans
KW  - 1700-1799
KW  - History
ER  -