Edward F. Haas | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803. By Gilbert C. Din. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xiv, 356 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-89096-904-3.)

Gilbert C. Din's study of the regulation of slavery in Spanish Louisiana is a thoroughly researched work. Din has examined documents at the Archivo General de Indies in Seville, the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, and the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans. His book provides an administrative analysis of the effort to control slaves in colonial Louisiana from the perspective of Spanish officials and Louisiana planters. The book is loaded with decrees, judicial decisions, and executive orders and is often at odds with the work of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, who probes the matter of race in colonial Louisiana within a cultural context, a viewpoint that Din consciously avoids. . . .

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