| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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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. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3037-1.)

A few months before the transfer of sovereignty over Louisiana to the United States in 1803, the French prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat mused in his memoirs about the influence of Saint Domingue on Louisiana. No French colony, he thought, had greater influence on the territory's customs and manners. Even after a slave revolution that began in 1791 turned Saint Domingue, the world's most valuable colony, upside down, contacts between the two places persisted. Nathalie Dessens, a professor of American history at the University of Toulouse–Le Mirail, agrees with Laussat and investigates the impact of Saint Domingue's refugees, the more than fifteen thousand whites, slaves, and free persons of color who arrived in lower Louisiana from 1791 to 1815.

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