Slaves and Masters of Pointe Coupe: 1762-1823
Book Details
Author(s)DeVille
PublisherClaitor's Law Books and Publishing
ISBN / ASIN1598041304
ISBN-139781598041309
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Sales Rank7,951,017
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This book, based on ancient court documents, relates to people of African descent, slave and free. At the same time, it provides a guide to all Europeans, Creoles, and others who had anything to do with slaves, freedmen, and their descendants. As one of the oldest settlements in the entire Mississippi River Valley, Pointe Coupée s African-American history is rich, and the colonists who created that legacy enriched the universe of Louisiana.
Containing succinct abstracts of over 1,000 documents, each provides the names of all principal parties, the date, and the nature of the act sales of all sort, leases, notices of slaves who had escaped their bondage, the all-important marriage contract, the equally important succession record myriad records. The African national origin in is often named. The original documents are if they are extant in the Office of the Clerk of Court, at the courthouse, New Roads.
In his introduction, Dr. Holmes writes of Louisiana: ...the northernmost Latin American state in the nations of Latin America, where the white man, the red man, and the black man have met and merged with one another to form a new kind of peoples the cosmic race. Slaves and Masters of Pointe Coupée provides ample evidence for the histories of the families that contributed to that phenomenon.
Containing succinct abstracts of over 1,000 documents, each provides the names of all principal parties, the date, and the nature of the act sales of all sort, leases, notices of slaves who had escaped their bondage, the all-important marriage contract, the equally important succession record myriad records. The African national origin in is often named. The original documents are if they are extant in the Office of the Clerk of Court, at the courthouse, New Roads.
In his introduction, Dr. Holmes writes of Louisiana: ...the northernmost Latin American state in the nations of Latin America, where the white man, the red man, and the black man have met and merged with one another to form a new kind of peoples the cosmic race. Slaves and Masters of Pointe Coupée provides ample evidence for the histories of the families that contributed to that phenomenon.
