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New Orleans, Louisiana & Saint-Louis, Senegal, mirror cities in the Atlantic world, 1659-2000s, edited by Emily Clark, Ibrahima Thioub, and Cécile Vidal

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index

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New Orleans, Louisiana & Saint-Louis, Senegal

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edited by Emily Clark, Ibrahima Thioub, and Cécile Vidal

mirror cities in the Atlantic world, 1659-2000s

"Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana, were two river towns created ex-nihilo by the French, the former in West Africa and the latter in North America, at the time of French early imperial expansion in the Atlantic world. Both became important port cities of in the French Empire. Saint-Louis was founded the earliest, in 1659, with the internationalization of the transatlantic slave trade. New Orleans was established much later, in 1718, after the transatlantic slave trade had greatly expanded and plantation slavery was already well entrenched in the French Antilles. The location and site of both Saint-Louis and New Orleans were chosen because they controlled the mouth of a river that gave access to the interiors of West Africa and North America, respectively. The site of each city allowed them to maintain connections with and even to control over time a large continental hinterland: much of Western Sahara, the upper and middle Niger Valleys, and the north of Senegambia for Saint-Louis; the whole Mississippi Basin for New Orleans."--Provided by publisher

Part 1. Negotiating slavery and freedom -- The role of slavery in the economic and social history of Saint-Louis, Senegal / Martin A. Klein -- Wives, soldiers, and slaves: The Atlantic world of Marie Baude, la femme Pinet / Jessica Marie Johnson -- The streets, the barracks, and the hospital: public space, social control, and cross-racial interactions among soldiers and slaves in French New Orleans / Cecile Vidal -- Part 2. Elusive citizenship -- The Prison of Saint-Louis: French expansion, social control, and the early development of the penitentiary institution in Senegal, circa 1834-1895 / Ibra Sene -- Citizenship and the abolition of slavery after 1848: conflicts of national allegiance among the French in New Orleans / Marieke Polfliet -- Asserting citizenship and refusing stigma: New Orleans equal-rights activists interpret 1803 and 1848 / Rebecca J. Scott -- French citizenship and colonial rule in Saint-Louis, Senegal / Larissa Kopytoff -- Part 3. Mythic persistence -- Transatlantic currents of orientalism: New Orleans quadroons and Saint-Louis signares / Emily Clark and Hilary Jones -- Reflections of Senegambia in New Orleans Jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn

New Orleans, Louisiana and Saint-Louis, Senegal