346 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 8 halftones, 3 maps
History / United States - Southern History
With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city, along with their white allies, seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of revolutionary events in the French Caribbean and demanded Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Their republican idealism produced the postwar South's most progressive vision of the future. Caryn Cossé Bell, in her impressive, sweeping study, traces the eighteenth-century origins of this Afro-Creole political and intellectual heritage, its evolution in antebellum New Orleans, and its impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Caryn Cossé Bell is professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and associate scholar at the Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans. She is the author of numerous books on francophone Louisiana, including Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868.
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