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III. The Planter: XI. The Black Proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana

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Du Bois, W. (1999). XI. The Black Proletariat in Mississippi and Louisiana. In Du Bois, W. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. Free Press, pp. 431-486

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Louisiana came into the possession of the United States because Toussaint L’Ouverture and the blacks of Haiti so broke the French colonial power and Napoleon’s plans for American empire that he practically gave away French America to the United States and turned his whole attention to Europe.

sick

—p.451 by W.E.B. Du Bois 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Louisiana came into the possession of the United States because Toussaint L’Ouverture and the blacks of Haiti so broke the French colonial power and Napoleon’s plans for American empire that he practically gave away French America to the United States and turned his whole attention to Europe.

sick

—p.451 by W.E.B. Du Bois 8 months, 2 weeks ago