Download or read book Caribbean New Orleans written by Cécile Vidal and published by Omohundro Ins. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cécile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles, especially Saint-Domingue, which shaped the city's development through the eighteenth century"--