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Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the …
Sex in Old New Orleans
*** EBOOK EXCLUSIVE ***BOOK 1: Spectacular WickednessFrom 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation …
Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana
Winner of the Francis Butler Simkins Award for 1995 and the 1994 General L. Kemper Williams PrizeIn what may be the most impressive research to date of state supreme court records, …
Becoming Free, Remaining Free
Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and …
Slavery & the Law
Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts …
Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book AwardWhen a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the …
New Orleans As It Was
A criminal lawyer and popular journalist, Henry C. Castellanos lived nearly three-quarters of the nineteenth century in New Orleans. In his later years, between 1892 and 1895, he …