From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans : migration and influences / Nathalie Dessens ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Dessens, Nathalie, 1963-

Series:

• Southern dissent

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Haitian Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--18th century.
• Haitian Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.
• Immigrants--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
• Refugees--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
• Refugees--Haiti--History.
• Haitians--Migrations--History.
• History.
• Refugees.
• Haitians--Migrations.
• Immigrants.
• Haitian Americans.
• Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Refugees.
• Haiti--Emigration and immigration--History.
• Haiti.
• Emigration and immigration.
• New Orleans (La.)--Emigration and immigration--History.
• New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.
• Louisiana--New Orleans.

Physical Description:

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]

Contents:

• The Saint-Domingue epic
• Louisiana, land of welcome
• The refugee community
• Influencing Louisiana's economic pattern
• A new social era?
• The refugees' politics : from visibility to influence
• A still unfathomed cultural legacy : refugees in Creole New Orleans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-247) and index.

ISBN:

0813030374

OCLC:

70483425

Publisher Number:

9780813030371