Filter By Subjects
German Americans Louisiana New Orleans Biography Müller, Salomé b. ca. 1809 Müller, Salomé b. ca. 1809 Trials, litigation, etc New Orleans (La.) Biography Slavery Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans History 19th century Slaves Emancipation Louisiana New Orleans Slaves Louisiana New Orleans Biography SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Trials Louisiana New Orleans Women, White Louisiana New Orleans BiographyFilter By Series
Thorndike Press large print American history seriesFilter By Subjects
German Americans Louisiana New Orleans Biography Müller, Salomé b. ca. 1809 Müller, Salomé b. ca. 1809 Trials, litigation, etc New Orleans (La.) Biography Slavery Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans History 19th century Slaves Emancipation Louisiana New Orleans Slaves Louisiana New Orleans Biography SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Trials Louisiana New Orleans Women, White Louisiana New Orleans BiographyFilter By Series
Thorndike Press large print American history seriesBailey, John
Summary: Louisiana, 1843: a German immigrant thinks she recognizes a young slave girl as the long-lost daughter of her German friend, but the girl has no memory of such a past, and her owner refuses to free her. In novelistic detail, historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an "infernal motley crew" of cotton kings, decadent river...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BAIBailey, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.8 BAIKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014