This is a fascinating story about Rachel O'Conner who lived on a plantation near Bayou Sara in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish for nearly 50 years (1797-1846). It covers her day-to-day activities based on letters, her relationships with slaves and overseers, her failures with crops, as well as her health and legal problems. A warm and appealing story of a unique woman. Insightful, historical - a wonderful book.

Rachel of old Louisiana

Biographies & Memoirs

Craven, Avery O.

Regional U.S.

Louisiana State Univ. Press

A compelling argument that over its history the South changed from a polyglot society into two homogeneous ones divided by race, but that in recent decades the region has been rapidly acquiring a new ethnic diversity. Tindall traces the growth of a distinctive southern ethnicity from the colonial period to the 20th century.

The Ethnic Southerners

TINDALL, George Brown

Reconstruction; an anthology of revisionist writings,

Stampp, Kenneth M.

Litwack, Leon F. [Eds]

Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jefferson Davis Award

Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865

History

Connelly, Thomas Lawerence

Americas

This Affair of Louisiana

Literature & Fiction

Alexander DeConde

Poetry

Popular Consent and Popular Control, Donald S. Lutz provides an examination of formal documents and local history in America before 1800. He recreates the evolution of a government based on popular consent and popular control in the 1770s and 1780s, an evolution that began in 1620, not in 1776. His aim is to correct the studies of American political theory and constitutional history that omit discussions of early state constitutions. He also asserts that the political theory underlying the United States Constitution stretches back to European and colonial sources in the 1600s.

Popular consent and popular control: Whig political theory in the early State constitutions

Lutz, Donald S.

The People of England: A Short Social and Economic History

Business & Money

ASHLEY, MAURICE

Economics

A hardware merchant recounts his journey from New Orleans to Richmond in the fall of 1862

Two Months in the Confederate States: An Englishman's Travels Through the South

W. C. Corsan

Travel

In the first unauthorized study of Wallace in two decades, a professor of history shows how Wallace's segregationist politics launched the anti-Washington populist movement that ultimately swept Republicans to power in 1994. 25,000 first printing.

The Politics of Rage : George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics

Carter, Dan T.

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