Sweet home Feliciana : family, slavery, and the hauntings of history / Rashauna Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Rashauna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Louisiana--Parish of Feliciana--History.

Slavery.

Parish of Feliciana (La.)--History.

Parish of Feliciana (La.).

Parish of Feliciana (La.)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 327 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her hand-sewn Mardi Gras memorial suit more than a century later, this history is one of triumphs and trauma, illustrating the ways people of African descent have created sites of endurance, belonging, and resistance. Johnson uses her grandmother's birthplace in East Feliciana as a prism to illuminate foundational, if fraught, aspects of US history including colonialism, slavery, war, citizenship, and unfinished freedom. The result is a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place and creates a new understanding of what it means to be American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 19, 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-66833-1

1-009-66836-6

1-009-66835-8