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Canada and the United States

Thomas N. Ingersoll. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1999. Pp. xxv, 490. Cloth $60.00, paper $25.00.

"New Orleans," Thomas N. Ingersoll asserts, "was the first settlement in the New World to have a black majority from the beginning" (p. 67). The presence of this large and imposing African population during the community's embryonic phase regimented the white population to an extraordinary degree. The result, according to Ingersoll, was an ordered slave society differing little in its activities and worldview from its counterparts in Charleston, Savannah, and other southern cities with large servile populations. In the course of attempting to prove this rather surprising—and highly controversial—conclusion, Ingersoll challenges virtually every major interpretation in colonial and territorial Louisiana historiography. . . .

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