Nuevo libro: Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society

Autor: Cécile Vidal. Publicado por Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture et University of North Carolina Press. Resumen del editor: The book claims that it is more accurate to view eighteenth-century New Orleans as a Caribbean port city rather than as a North American one as its late founding, its position within the French Empire and its connections with Saint-Domingue explain why the interplay of slavery and race profoundly shaped its society from the outset. The Louisia..