Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861
by
John M. Sacher
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Though antebellum Louisiana shared the rest of the South's commitment to slavery and cotton, the presence of a substantial sugarcane industry, large Creole and Catholic populations, numerous foreign and northern immigrants, and the immense city of New Orleans made it perhaps the most unsouthern of...