Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Title | Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1992 |
Authors | Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo |
Number of Pages | 434 |
Publisher | Louisiana State University Press |
City | Baton Rouge |
Abstract | This foundational study explores the history and development of the distinctive ethnic, linguistic, religious, and folklore practices of enslaved Africans that produced the Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. For Midlo-Hall, culture is inextricably interwoven with social and economic life as well as violence and warfare--whether the French slave trade, intra-African conflict, rivalries among empires, or slave resistance, from maronnage, to the Natchez revolt, and the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795. As she writes: “In the Americas, new cultures were formed through intense, and often violent, contacts among peoples of varied nations, races, classes, languages, and traditions” (pg. xiii). Grounded in an exploration of the African roots of creole cultural practices, her work reveals the interactions of Native peoples with those of European and African descent, uncovering the roots of an enduring creole culture. |
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