Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
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Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
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Caryn Cossé Bell, in her impressive, sweeping study, traces the eighteenth-century origins of the Afro-Creole political and intellectual heritage, its evolution in antebellum New Orleans, and its impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868 by Caryn Cosse Bell
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.
"With Intelligence, wit, and insight [Bell takes] us more deeply into the free colored world than any previous historian" - Ira Berlin, The Nation; "Bell opens a window on a lost world.... The historiography of free people of color and Louisiana's Afro-Creoles must be reassessed in light of her work." - William and Mary Quarterly; "Bell's energetically written analysis of 'Enlightenment in action' within Louisiana serves to remind us of the transformative power of popular politics and culture in the postslavery dispensation of plantation America.... A pathbreaking work." - Journal of American History"
Caryn Cossé Bell is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780807130261 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807130265 |
| Title | Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868 |
| Author | Caryn Cosse Bell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Louisiana State University Press |
| Year published | 1997-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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