The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo SquareChicago Review Press, 1 ene 2008 - 368 páginas STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance.
The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&”
This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities. |
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... slavery was good for music. The big city of Havana, central to maritime commerce, took music in from all over, including from Louisiana, but radiated it out even more powerfully. As New Orleans grew, it would do the same, inhaling and ...
... were built by enslaved artisans, with the income from slaves' labor. In New Orleans, you can easily see, and feel, that slavery wasn't so long ago. Mud, mud, mud. —Benjamin Henry Latrobe, describing New Orleans, 18191 ROCK THE CITY 7.
... slaves joined forces with Indians—Carlos for- bade the importation of Wolofs specifically, of Muslim slaves in general, and, moreover, of all blacks raised in Islamized areas of Africa. The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves ...
... slavery for others. Off the north coast of the western territory of La Española, the small island of Tortuga became a haven for another kingless society: the freebooters, or filibusters (flibustiers in French, from the Dutch flijboten ...
... slaves with them. Dutch privateers continued bringing to Virginia slaves diverted en route to the Spanish colonies. Some early Virginia planters went up to Dutch Man- hattan to buy their slaves, while others bought from Barbados, making ...
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