The Cabildo -- New Orleans' unique Spanish city government -- touched the life of every citizen of the city during its thirty-four years of existence, and its decisions often had an impact on the administration of Louisiana far beyond the confines of New Orleans itself. Moreover, its archival records, with lavish and detailed information about every aspect of life within Spanish New Orleans, are the richest of any city in the Spanish Borderlands. Yet curiously, until now there has been no thorough analysis of this influential institution.
In The New Orleans Cabildo, Gilbert C. Din and...
The Cabildo -- New Orleans' unique Spanish city government -- touched the life of every citizen of the city during its thirty-four years of existen...
"Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves" is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and its function as a part of Louisiana's culture during the years of Spanish rule. Gilbert C. Din challenges the idea that conditions under the Spaniards differed little from the years of French rule and examines how local culture merged with colonial government and residual laws to create a slave system unlike any other in the Deep South. Din presents many aspects of the slavery issue, including a look at the French system, conflicts between planters who favored the established system and governors who...
"Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves" is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and its function as a part of Louisiana's culture during the yea...
Using a plethora of previously unexamined documents from a number of archives, this work provides the first clear understanding of William Augustus Bowles and his exploits along the Spanish Gulf Coast and among the Creek Indians, demonstrating unequivocally that the glory-seeking adventurer was not the tragic heroic figure that he and previous historians have claimed. F. Todd Smith, University of North Texas
War on the Gulf Coast is one of the first books about the Spanish period in West Florida (1797 1805) written from the Spanish point of view. Using Spanish archival sources,...
Using a plethora of previously unexamined documents from a number of archives, this work provides the first clear understanding of William Augustu...
