Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
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Current format, eBook, 1997, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWith the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city, along with their white allies, seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of revolutionary events in the French Caribbean and demanded Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Their republican idealism produced the postwar South's most progressive vision of the future. Caryn Cossé Bell, in her impressive, sweeping study, traces the eighteenth-century origins of this Afro-Creole political and intellectual heritage, its evolution in antebellum New Orleans, and its impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Traces how the Latin European religious culture and tripartite racial order of colonial New Orleans underlay the South's most progressive vision of the future at the end of the Civil War. Explains how the city's Afro-Creole leaders were steeped in the ideals of the American and French Revolutions, revolutionary images from the Caribbean, a Catholic universalist ethic, and Romantic philosophy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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