| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819. By Thomas N. Ingersoll. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. xxvi, 490 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-57233-023-6. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 1-57233-024-4.)

In 1810, two years before Orleans Territory attained statehood as Louisiana, an official census counted more slaves than whites (36,660 to 34,311) and a free colored class that amounted to about 7 percent of the total population. By then, as Thomas N. Ingersoll reminds us, a slave society had existed in and around New Orleans for almost a century. Historians have distinguished New Orleans slave society from mainland counterparts by investigating the interplay of French, Spanish, and African cultural influences during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Ingersoll's sprawling synthesis dissents from the prevailing scholarship: The slave society that developed in and around New Orleans not only departed from Caribbean models, it looked "remarkably similar to . . . the slave society of the Virginia Tidewater." . . .

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