Download or read book Louisiana 1860 Agricultural Census written by Linda L. Green and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These agricultural census records name only the head of the household; however, they do yield unique information about how people lived. Often, individuals who were missed on the regular U.S. census will appear on the agricultural census. Six of the agricultural census's original forty-eight columns are transcribed here: name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved acreage, cash value of farm, value of farm implements and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume covers the parishes of: Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Boosier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Caldwell, Carroll, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia, DeSoto, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Franklin, Iberville, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, and Madison. A surname index augments the records.
Download or read book Louisiana 1860 Agricultural Census written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisiana 1860 Agricultural Census written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This census names only the head of household. Often times when an individual was missed on the regular U. S. Census, they would appear on this agricultural census. . . . There are 46 columns of information. I chose to transcribe only six of the columns. The six are: Name of the Owner, Improved Acreage, Unimproved Acreage, Cash Value of the Farm, Value of Farm Implements and Machinery, and Value of Livestock"—Introd., 1st prelim. p.
Download or read book Acadian to Cajun written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Memory and Magic written by Hella Rabbethge-Schiller and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pistols and Politics written by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century. Numerous pockets of small communities formed in the nineteenth-century South with cultures and values independent from those of the dominant planter class. As Hyde shows, one such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions com-bined to create an enclave of white yeomen, and where in the years after the Civil War, levels of conflict escalated to a state of chronic anar-chy. His careful study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph. Additional material reveals the ongoing impact of a culture riddled with suspicion and bitterness well into the Jim Crow era.
Download or read book The Big Muddy written by Christopher Morris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has changed, for the river and for the surrounding valley. Indeed, by the 1890s, the valley was rapidly drying. Morris shows how centuries of increasingly intensified human meddling--including deforestation, swamp drainage, and levee construction--led to drought, disease, and severe flooding. He outlines the damage done by the introduction of foreign species, such as the Argentine nutria, which escaped into the wild and are now busy eating up Louisiana's wetlands. And he critiques the most monumental change in the lower Mississippi Valley--the reconstruction of the river itself, largely under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers. Valley residents have been paying the price for these human interventions, most visibly with the disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina. Morris also describes how valley residents have been struggling to reinvigorate the valley environment in recent years--such as with the burgeoning catfish and crawfish industries--so that they may once again live off its natural abundance. Morris concludes that the problem with Katrina is the problem with the Amazon Rainforest, drought and famine in Africa, and fires and mudslides in California--it is the end result of the ill-considered bending of natural environments to human purposes.
Download or read book A Preliminary Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas written by Geological and Agricultural Survey of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Talk of the Town written by Fredrick Marcel Spletstoser and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sleepy courthouse town of Alexandria, Louisiana, began to recover from the devastation and trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Daily Town Talk appeared. Nicknamed Alexandria's postage stamp paper by a rival publication, the Town Talk aimed to be the best daily outside of New Orleans and became one of the most successful regional newspapers of its kind. Fredrick M. Spletstoser tells the story of the paper's first sixty years and of the town's triumphs and setbacks during that same time. An unpretentious country journal, the Town Talk would become in the second half of the twentieth century a pioneer in newspaper technology under the leadership of Joe D. Smith, one of the most respected names in American journalism. The Town Talk was inextricably bound up with - and often directly behind - transformations in Alexandria's urban landscape, the development of municipal services and education, efforts to attract industry and cultivate trade, and the stimulation of surrounding agribusiness. occurred across the turn of the century, the large and enduring military presence in central Louisiana, and the impact of Huey P. Long's political career. Along the way, he narrates colorful stories culled from the Town Talk's pages and describes the fascinating family members who published the paper during this entire period. Talk of the Town illustrates the role provincial journalism played in the planning and expansion of towns throughout the country as it relates the engrossing history of one southern place and the people who lived there.
Download or read book The Source written by Loretto Dennis Szucs and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""
Download or read book Agriculture and Economic Development in Louisiana written by Thomas A. Becnel and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1997 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Louisiana's economic evolution and concentrates on the period between statehood, 1812, and 1995.
Download or read book Hog Meat and Hoecake written by Sam Bowers Hilliard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972, it is one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in the antebellum South's history, culture, and politics. Drawing from diaries, the census, the press, and farm records, it has become a landmark of food ways scholarship.
Download or read book An American Planter written by Martha Jane Brazy and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Duncan grew up in an elite Pennsylvania family with strong business ties in Philadelphia. There was little indication, though, that he would become a cosmopolitan entrepreneur who would own over fifteen plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, collectively owning more than two thousand slaves. With style and substance, Martha Jane Brazy describes both the development of Duncan's businesses and the lives of the slaves on whose labor his empire was constructed.".
Download or read book Population of the United States in 1860 written by United States. Census Office. 8th census, 1860 and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture 1865 written by United States Commissioner of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans written by Laura Kilcer VanHuss and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of accomplishment and prosperity, while concealing the enslaved and exploited laborers whose work powered the plantations Persac drew. In this collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider the histories that Persac’s map omitted, exploring plantations not as sites of ease and plenty, but as complex legal, political, and medical landscapes. Essays by Laura Ewen Blokker and Suzanne Turner consider the built and designed landscapes of plantations as they were structured by the logics and logistics of both slavery and the effort to present a façade of serenity and wealth. William Horne and Charles D. Chamberlain III delve into the political activity of formerly enslaved people and slaveholders respectively, while Christopher Willoughby explores the ways the plantation health system was defined by the agro-industrial environment. Jochen Wierich examines artistic depictions of plantations from the antebellum years through the twentieth century, and Christopher Morris uses the famed Uncle Sam Plantation to explain how plantations have been memorialized, remembered, and preserved. With keen insight into the human cost of the idealized version of the agrarian South depicted in Persac’s map, Charting the Plantation Landscape encourages us to see with new eyes and form new definitions of what constitutes the plantation landscape.
Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
