Gary B. Mills, Elizabeth Shown Mills

Broschiertes Buch

Forgotten People

Cane River's Creoles of Color (Revised)

Beschreibung

Now revised and expanded, this work revisits Cane River's â forgotten peopleâ and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research to provide a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of colour, tackling race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves.

Autor

Gary B. Mills (1944- 2002) grew up on a rice plantation in the Mississippi Delta but visited Cane River often in his youth and adopted it personally and professionally in adulthood. From 1976 until his death, he was a professor of history at the University of Alabama. Elizabeth Shown Mills is an independent scholar and the author of numerous works on Louisiana history and research methodology, including Isle of Canes and Evidence Explained, named by Library Journal as a 2007 Best Reference book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9780807137130
• ISBN-10: 0807137138
• Artikelnr.: 38141532