An edition of Africans in colonial Louisiana (1992)

Africans in colonial Louisiana

the development of Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth century

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An edition of Africans in colonial Louisiana (1992)

Africans in colonial Louisiana

the development of Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth century

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"Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state." "In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines--history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore--in her analysis. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. She gives special consideration to race mixture between Africans, Indians, and whites; to the role of slaves in the Natchez Uprising of 1729; to slave unrest and conspiracies, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795; and to the development of communities of runaway slaves in the cypress swamps around New Orleans. Hall's text is enhanced by a number of tables, graphs, maps, and illustrations." "Hall attributes the exceptional vitality of Louisiana's creole slave communities to several factors: the large size of the African population relative to the white population; the importation of slaves directly from Africa; the enduring strength of African cultural features in the slave community; and the proximity of wilderness areas that permitted the establishment and long-term survival of maroon communities." "The result of many years of research and writing, Hall's book makes a unique and important contribution to the literature on colonial Louisiana and to the history of slavery and of African-American cultures."--BOOK JACKET.

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Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
September 1995, Louisiana State University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-422) and index.

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Baton Rouge
Other Titles
Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth century.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
976.3/00496073
Library of Congress
E185.93.L6 H16 1992, E185.93.L6H16 1992, E185.93.L6 H16 1992eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 434 p. :
Number of pages
434

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1564904M
Internet Archive
africansincoloni0000hall
ISBN 10
0807116866
LCCN
91046648
OCLC/WorldCat
45843432, 25131336
Library Thing
559733
Goodreads
4632254

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