Charting the plantation landscape from Natchez to New Orleans / edited by Laura Kilcer VanHuss.

"'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Reading the American landscape.
Other Authors: VanHuss, Laura Kilcer (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Series:Reading the American landscape.
Subjects:
Persac, Marie Adrien, > 1823-1873. > Norman's chart of the Lower Mississippi River.
Plantations > Louisiana > History.
Enslaved persons > Louisiana > Social conditions.
African Americans > Louisiana > Social conditions.
Louisiana > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Louisiana > Social life and customs > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Manners and customs.
Plantations.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Louisiana.
1800-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:243 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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