Author: Martha Aymond Bordelon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691470440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Bordelon Family came from France to Louisiana. This book traces their journey.

Author: Corinne L. Saucier
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455605798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Originally published in 1943, this comprehensive volume chronicles the history of Avoyelles Parish, from the first Indian settlers to the time of the book's publication. Saucier provides in-depth information about the organization of the parish as it grew out of the Avoyelles Post during the French regime. Throughout the book, Saucier explores the many hardships endured by the first settlers, such as the health and sanitation, relief and welfare organizations, and numerous disasters-most notably the Red River flood of 1927. Saucier also provides the history of institutions, such as churches, education, banking, and journalism, that would serve as a foundation for its future population.

Author: Paulette Fenderson Hebert
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663224889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Shaking your family tree might uncover Black slave and plantation owners. White people might find their Black relatives. Black people might discover that Black free men fought gallantly as officers and gentlemen in the Confederate army. Marie Claire DeCuir’s most unusual precise memory of an excellent story teller unfolds the lives of immediate and extended family members as racially mixed slave owners of vast and wealth producing plantations. The following are just a few of the families that she remembers and relates their stories: RICARD, LA COUR, PORCHE, SEVERIN, DE BEAULIEU, MAYEUX, DESNOYERS, CADET, TOUNOIR, LABBE, PROVOST, PATIN, CARAMOUCHE, BOULIGNY, FAZENDE, CHARBONNET, DREUX, BERNOUDY, PIERRE, RICHE, TREPAGNIER, CHAUVIN, LANGLOIS, DUBUCLET, GRAY, FORTIN, POLLARD, BEAUVAIS, DESLONDE, HONORE, DESTREHAN, VERRET, SOLOMON, ROBERT, ALLAIN, MORGAN, POREE, DUGUE, REUTER, DAIGLE, LAFITTE, LEJEUNE, BROYARD, BARRE, GASPARD, GUILLOT, HIGBEE, ZERINGUE, ROY, DEJEAN, DUVAL, DE CHARLEVILLE, DE LERY, DE LA FRENIERE, DE MONTPELIER, BARRAS, HOPKINS, TRUDEAU, PURNELL, RABALAIS, BORDELON, GAJEAN, WALTERS, DUPERON, JEANSOMMES.

Author: Randy P. DeCuir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Avoyelles Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Scott P. Marler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107354722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based mode of production with which they were allied, New Orleans merchants faced growing pressures during the antebellum era. Their complacent failure to improve the port's infrastructure or invest in manufacturing left them vulnerable to competition from the fast-developing industrial economy of the North, weaknesses that were fatally exposed during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Changes to regional and national economic structures after the Union victory prevented New Orleans from recovering its commercial dominance, and the former first-rank American city quickly devolved into a notorious site of political corruption and endemic poverty.

Author: Wilbur F. Joffrion
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Author: Edwin Adams Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Steven M. Mayeux
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Mayeux does more than just tell the story of the fort from the military perspective; it goes deeper to closely examine the lives of the people that served in-and lived around-Fort DeRussy. Through a thorough examination of local documents, Mayeux has uncovered the fascinating stories that reveal for the first time what wartime life was like for those living in central Louisiana. In this book, the reader will meet soldiers and slaves, plantation owners and Jayhawkers, elderly women and newborn babies, all of whom played important roles in making the history of Fort DeRussy. Mayeux presents an unvarnished portrait of the life at the fort, devoid of any romanticized notions, but more accurately capturing the utter humanity of those who built it, defended it, attacked it, and lived around it.

Author: Edwin Adams Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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