Reviewed by Kenneth Aslakson | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences. By Nathalie Dessens. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xiv + 257 pp. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (cloth).

In the twenty years straddling the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, New Orleans underwent incredible change. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 and the development of new sugar production methods in 1795 encouraged the rise of plantation slavery in the lower Mississippi Valley that spurred the rapid growth of New Orleans as a leading commercial center. The acquisition of the Louisiana Territory by the United States not only instituted political changes but also initiated important legal, demographic, and cultural transformations. Concurrently, as Paul Lachance documents elsewhere, close to 15,000 refugees from the revolution-torn French West Indies, including thousands of slaves, free people of color, and whites, arrived in New Orleans.

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