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Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- VanHuss, Laura Kilcer
- Series:
- Reading the American Landscape
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- LSU Press
- Summary:
- "'Charting the plantation landscape from Natchez to New Orleans' examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famous maps: Norman's chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac's map depicted a world of accomplishment, prosperity, and wealth, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac's map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes. Essays by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the eff
- ISBN:
- 9780807175729
- 0807175722
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