Louisiana Sugar Plantations During the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807122211)

This early work by the esteemed historian Charles P. Roland draws from an abundance of primary sources to describe how the Civil War brought south Louisiana's sugarcane industry to the brink of extinction, and disaster to the lives of civilians both black and white. A gifted raconteur, Roland sets the scene where the Louisiana cane country formed "a favored and colorful part of the Old South," and then unfolds the series of events that changed it forever: secession, blockade, invasion, occupation, emancipation, and defeat. Though sugarcane survived, production did not match prewar levels for twenty-five years.

Roland's approach is both illustrative of an earlier era and remarkably seminal to current emancipation studies. He displays sympathy for plantation owners' losses, but he considers as well the sufferings of women, slaves, and freedmen, yielding a rich study of the social, cultural, economic, and agricultural facets of Louisiana's sugar plantations during the Civil War.

Author: Charles P. Roland
ISBN-10: 0807122211
ISBN-13: 9780807122211
Publisher: LSU Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1997
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.89h x 6.01w x 0.36d