Mutinous women how French convicts became founding mothers of the Gulf Coast
"On December 12, 1719, a ship named La Mutine, or the Mutinous Woman, sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the vast North American territory then referred to as "the Mississippi." La Mutine was loaded with goods that the fledgling French colony urgently required for its...
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New York, NY
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preliminaries: A Second Coast, a Second Ship
- Part I: France. False Arrests and trumped-Up Charges
- John Law's Louisiana Gold Rush
- "Merchandise" for Louisiana
- The Roundup
- Chains and Shackles
- Part II: The Second Coast. "The Islands" of Louisiana
- The Desert Islands of Alabama and Mississippi
- Biloxi's Deadly Sands
- Putting Down Roots in Mobile
- Building a Capital in New Orleans
- Women on the Verge in Natchitoches, Illinois, and Arkansas
- Louisiana's Garden on the German Coast
- Natchez, John Law's Folly
- Pointe Coupée in the Shadow of Natchez
- The End of the Women's Era
- Coda