Lsu Press: 854 books
Disease, Resistance, and Lies
The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In the early nineteenth century the major economic players of the Atlantic trade lanes -- the United States, Brazil, and Cuba -- witnessed explosive commercial growth. Commodities like cotton, coffee, and sugar contributed to the fantastic wealth of an elite few and the enslavement of many. As a result...
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825
Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In June 1825 the Cuban countryside witnessed a large African-led slave rebellion -- a revolt that began a cycle of slave uprisings lasting until the mid-1840s. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 examines this movement and its participants for the first time, highlighting the significance of African...
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave
Annotated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the...
The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Dunboyne Plantation in the 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1833, Edward G. W. and Frances Parke Butler moved to their newly constructed plantation house, Dunboyne, on the banks of the Mississippi River near the village of Bayou Goula. Their experiences at Dunboyne over the next forty years demonstrated the transformations that many land-owning southerners...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
1871-1879
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Volume 13 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he becomes head of the Carolina Life Insurance Company of Memphis and attempts to gain a financial foothold for his newly reunited family. Having lost everything in the Civil War and spent two years immediately...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
1880-1889
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The final volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy through the completion of his two monumental works on the history of the Confederate States of America. In the first, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881), Davis sought to recast the...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
1808–1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1971
Much of Jefferson Davis' life and career has been obscured in controversy and misinterpretation. This full, carefully annotated edition will make it possible for scholars to reassess the man who served as President of the Confederacy and who in the aftermath of war became the symbolic leader of the...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
June 1841–July 1846
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1975
The five-year period from 1841 to 1846 saw the beginning of Jefferson Davis’ political career. In this, the second volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, the documents cover Davis’ unsuccessful race for the state legislature, his selection as a Democratic state elector, his marriage to Varina...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
June 1865–December 1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
"Being powerless to direct the current, I can only wait to see whither it runs," wrote Jefferson Davis to his wife, Varina, on October 11, 1865, five months after the victorious United States Army took him prisoner. Indeed, in the tumultuous years immediately after the Civil War, Davis found...
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana
A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier’s correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate account...
The Forgotten People
Cane River's Creoles of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced...
In the Creole Twilight
Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of European and African heritage, celebrated customs like the Courir de Mardi Gras and fabled creatures like the Loup-Garou are outgrowths of the region’s distinctive oral traditions....
God and General Longstreet
The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the
"Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General
Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from the
first generation of former Confederates to more recent times,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1988
Varieties of Southern Religious Experience reflects the central assumption that there has been a distinct South for a long time, and effectively and engagingly examines the genuine diversity of that region's religious history.