Author: Orleans Parish (La.). Civil District CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
General Index of All Successions, Emancipations, Interdictions and Partition Proceedings
Author: Orleans Parish (La.). Civil District CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wills
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Author: A New Orleans Voudou Priestess
Author: Carolyn Morrow LongPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813040809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Orleans, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau disentangles the complex threads of the legend surrounding the famous Voudou priestess. According to mysterious, oft-told tales, Laveau was an extraordinary celebrity whose sorcery-fueled influence extended widely from slaves to upper-class whites. Some accounts claim that she led the "orgiastic" Voudou dances in Congo Square and on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, kept a gigantic snake named Zombi, and was the proprietress of an infamous house of assignation. Though legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, she also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. The true story of Marie Laveau, though considerably less flamboyant than the legend, is equally compelling. In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Marie Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined. Changes in New Orleans engendered by French and Spanish rule, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation affected seven generations of Laveau's family, from enslaved great-grandparents of pure African blood to great-grandchildren who were legally classified as white. Simultaneously, Long examines the evolution of New Orleans Voudou, which until recently has been ignored by scholars.
We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible
Author: Darlene Clark HinePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0926019813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
Essays by 30 authors attempt to reclaim and to create heightened awareness about individuals, contributions, and struggles that have made African American women's survival and progress possible.
Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.
The Official Publications of American Counties
Author: Bibliography of New Orleans Imprints, 1764-1864
Author: Florence M. JumonvillePublisher: Historic New Orleans Collections
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
"A descriptive bibliography of books, pamphlets, and broadsides and other ephemera issued during the first 100 years of printing in New Orleans. Organized by years, the entries are arranged in a clear and easy-to-read format and provide information that was previously unavailable in a compiled form. The search for New Orleans imprints included 85 librairies and historical societies, resulting in over 3,300 entries. The introduction, a history of printing in the city, discusses subject content in New Orleans publications, the rise of English-language printing, and the evolution of official printing" --Amazon.
The Baratarians and the Battle of New Orleans
Author: Jane Lucas De GrummondPublisher: Legacy Publishing (GA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Interim Appointment
Author: Jared W. BradleyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
William C. C. Claiborne, the first governor of Orleans Territory, was at the hub of officials who grappled with the political, diplomatic, and administrative challenges that arose following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Letters both to and from Claiborne during the critical months of 1804–1805, mysteriously excluded in 1917 from Dunbar Rowland’s Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801–1816, are now made widely accessible, over half of them published here for the first time. To enhance appreciation of the letters, Jared William Bradley has furnished biographical sketches of thirty-one heretofore little-known individuals crucial to Claiborne’s correspondence, delineating their personalities and their contributions to the development of law and the establishment of American government in the French Creole society. Bradley also treats in four essays the origins and growth of the “Municipal,” or the New Orleans city council; two organizations of businessmen that were ensnared in the so-called Burr Conspiracy in 1807; and the early history of Fort St. Philip, which guarded access to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Bradley’s essays joined with 218 of Claiborne’s letters makes Interim Appointment of incalculable value. It provides fresh insights into the political, constitutional, and social histories of Louisiana and the United States.