This early work by esteemed historian Charles P. Roland draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana's sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white. A gifted raconteur, Roland sets the scene where the Louisiana cane country formed "a favored and colorful part of the Old South," and then unfolds the series of events that changed it forever: secession, blockade, invasion, occupation, emancipation, and defeat. Though sugarcane survived, production did not match prewar levels for twenty-five years. Roland's approach is both illustrative of an earlier era and remarkably seminal to current emancipation studies. He displays sympathy for plantation owners' losses, but he considers as well the sufferings of women, slaves, and freedmen, yielding a rich study of the social, cultural, economic, and agricultural facets of Louisiana's sugar plantations during the Civil War.
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This is a reprint of a work originally published in 1957. It is a work that fills a gap on a little known aspect of the American Civil War. I found it to be very interesting.
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A favored and colorful part of the Old South was the Louisiana sugar country. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sequestration commission, sugar proprietors, sugar cultivators, seed cane, cane country, bayou land, plantation folk, plantation journal, sugar parishes, cane planters, grinding season, sugar country, local provost marshal, cane land, cane growers, free black labor, sugar growers, plantation women, sugar land, plantation negroes, cane industry, sugar planters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Minor Plantation Diary, Magnolia Plantation, General Butler, General Banks, Port Hudson, New York, Bayou Lafourche, Palfrey Plantation Diary, Bayou Teche, Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Mississippi River, Red River, Mary Parish, Confederate Girl's Diary, Franklin Pugh, John Moore, Louisiana State University, Pugh Plantation Diary, United States, Terrebonne Parish, Department of Archives, Dixie Land, Old Times New!
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A favored and colorful part of the Old South was the Louisiana sugar country. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sequestration commission, sugar proprietors, sugar cultivators, seed cane, cane country, bayou land, plantation folk, plantation journal, sugar parishes, cane planters, grinding season, sugar country, local provost marshal, cane land, cane growers, free black labor, sugar growers, plantation women, sugar land, plantation negroes, cane industry, sugar planters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Minor Plantation Diary, Magnolia Plantation, General Butler, General Banks, Port Hudson, New York, Bayou Lafourche, Palfrey Plantation Diary, Bayou Teche, Louisiana Historical Quarterly, Mississippi River, Red River, Mary Parish, Confederate Girl's Diary, Franklin Pugh, John Moore, Louisiana State University, Pugh Plantation Diary, United States, Terrebonne Parish, Department of Archives, Dixie Land, Old Times New!
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- My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell on 9 pages
- A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (Notable American Authors) by Frederick Law Olmsted on 8 pages
- Magnolia Plantation by B. Butler on 6 pages
- Secession and Restoration of Louisiana (American Scene) by Willie M. Caskey on 4 pages
- Civil War and Reconstruction by Jean Harvey Baker in Front Matter, page 49, and Back Matter
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- Rise and Fall of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Senator Williamson S. Oldham, CSA (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY) by Clayton E. Jewett on page 127, and Back Matter
- A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond by Priscilla Bond in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- My Odyssey Through History: Memoirs of War and Academe by Charles P. Roland in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana (Yearbook in Early Childhood Education) by Ann Patton Malone in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling in Back Matter
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