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The Creoles of Louisiana / by George W. Cable.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1885 Cable
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creoles.
- New Orleans (La.)--History.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Physical Description:
- 320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : John C. Nimmo ; 1885.
- Contents:
- Who are the Creoles?
- French founders
- The Creoles' city
- African slaves and Indian wars
- The new generation
- The first Creoles
- Praying to the king
- Ulloa, Aubry, and the superior council
- The insurrection
- The price of half-convictions
- Count O'Reilly and Spanish laws
- Spanish conciliation
- The American Revolution on the Gulf side
- Spanish New Orleans
- How Boré made sugar
- The Creoles sing the Marseillaise
- The Americans
- Spain against fate
- New Orleans sought, Louisiana bought
- New Orleans in 1803
- From subjects to citizens
- Burr's conspiracy
- The West Indian cousin
- The pirates of Barataria
- Barataria destroyed
- The British invasion
- The battle of New Orleans
- The end of the pirates
- Faubourg Ste. Marie
- A hundred thousand people
- Flush times
- Why not bigger than London
- The school-master
- Later days
- Inundations
- Sauvé's crevasse
- The days of pestilence
- The great epidemic
- Brighter skies.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed note on flyleaf: "very extensive insight into subject Louisiana Creoles."
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed on title page: "S. E. B. Bowerie-Pusey - New Year's Day."
- Athenaeum copy: Formerly the property of Winthrop College Library.
- OCLC:
- 4545422
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