Reborn in America : French exiles and refugees in the United States and the vine and olive adventure, 1815-1865 / Eric Saugera ; translated by Madeleine Velguth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saugera, Éric.

Series:

Atlantic crossings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Agricultural colonies.

French Americans.

Land tenure.

Vine and Olive Colony.

French Americans--Alabama--History--19th century.

French Americans--Land tenure--Alabama--History--19th century.

Agricultural colonies--Alabama--History--19th century.

Alabama--History--19th century.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

x, 572 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2011]

Summary:

The rich detail presented in this story adds a great deal to what we know of ante-bellum Alabama and the international intrigues of the decades after Napoleon's final defeat, and sheds light as well on the other less glamorous refugees, planters fleeing from the revolution in Haiti, whose interest was much more purely agricultural, and whose lasting influence on the region was far more durable.

Contents:

Treason and terror

A critical moment

The "chief culprits"

Political reaction in Gironde

Across the Atlantic

Maritime exodus

A conflictual friendship

Settling in America

Alabama's exotic roots

Grape harvests in America

The new Thebaid

A gift from Congress

A family affair

French lands in Alabama

Routes to the South

The promised land

The French and the others

A model colonist

Choice of a world

Rebirth in America

Return to the homeland.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis written in French in 2007, entitled: Renaître en América.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817317232

0817317236

OCLC:

703104475