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Social life in old New Orleans

Author : Eliza Ripley

Publisher : BookRix

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 22,75 MB

Release : 2023-12-13

Category : History

ISBN : 3755463709

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“Children should be seen and not heard.” Children were neither seen nor heard in the days of which I write, the days of 1840. They led the simple life, going and coming in their own unobtrusive way, making no stir in fashionable circles, with laces and flounces and feathered hats. There were no ready-made garments then for grown-ups, much less for children. It was before California gold mines, before the Mexican war, before money was so abundant that we children could turn up our little noses at a picayune. I recall the time when Alfred Munroe descended from Boston upon the mercantile world of New Orleans, and opened on Camp Street a “one price” clothing store for men. Nobody had ever heard of one price, and no deviation, for anything, from a chicken to a plantation. The fun of hectoring over price, and feeling, no matter how the trade ended, you had a bargain after all, was denied the customers of Mr. Alfred Munroe. The innovation was startling, but Munroe retired with a fortune in course of time.



Social Life in Old New Orleans

Author : Eliza Ripley

Publisher : New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 46,71 MB

Release : 1912

Category : History

ISBN :

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Social life in old New Orleans : Being recollections of my girlhood

Author : Eliza Ripley

Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 18,32 MB

Release : 2024-04-23

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Step Back in Time and Experience the Charms of Old New Orleans with Eliza Ripley's Memoir Transport yourself to the enchanting world of old New Orleans with 'Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood' by Eliza Ripley. Through the vivid recollections of her girlhood, Ripley offers readers a glimpse into a bygone era filled with romance, intrigue, and Southern charm. Experience the Splendor of Antebellum New Orleans 'Social Life in Old New Orleans' invites readers to step back in time to the antebellum South, where the streets of New Orleans teemed with life, culture, and opulence. Through Ripley's evocative prose, you'll wander through the grand ballrooms of the French Quarter, stroll along the banks of the Mississippi River, and mingle with the city's elite in their stately mansions. From elaborate social gatherings to intimate family moments, Ripley captures the essence of life in old New Orleans with charm and nostalgia. Whether attending lavish cotillions, sampling Creole cuisine, or simply enjoying the company of friends and family on a lazy afternoon, each page is filled with the sights, sounds, and flavors of a bygone era. Meet the Colorful Characters of Old New Orleans At the heart of 'Social Life in Old New Orleans' are its colorful characters—aristocrats and artists, debutantes and dandies, slaves and socialites—all brought to life with warmth and affection by Ripley's pen. From her own family members to the colorful personalities she encountered in New Orleans society, Ripley's memoir is populated with a cast of unforgettable characters who will capture your imagination and your heart. Through their stories and interactions, Ripley paints a rich tapestry of antebellum New Orleans, highlighting the complexities of race, class, and culture in the pre-Civil War South. As you follow the ups and downs of their lives, you'll find yourself drawn into a world of passion, intrigue, and drama that feels as vibrant and alive today as it did over a century ago. Why 'Social Life in Old New Orleans' Is a Timeless Classic: Historical Insight: Gain a deeper understanding of antebellum New Orleans and Southern culture through Eliza Ripley's firsthand accounts and vivid descriptions. Captivating Narratives: Lose yourself in the captivating stories and anecdotes of old New Orleans society, brought to life with warmth, humor, and nostalgia. Cultural Significance: Explore the social customs, traditions, and values of a bygone era, and discover how they continue to shape the fabric of New Orleans society today. Personal Reflection: Experience the joys, sorrows, triumphs, and challenges of Eliza Ripley's girlhood through her intimate and heartfelt recollections.Don't miss your chance to experience the splendor and romance of old New Orleans with 'Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood' by Eliza Ripley. Whether you're a history buff, a lover of memoirs, or simply curious about life in the antebellum South, this timeless classic is sure to captivate and enchant readers of all ages.



The Jewish Community of New Orleans

Author : Irwin Lachoff

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 46,3 MB

Release : 2005-07-27

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1439613052

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New Orleans is not a typical Southern city. The Jews who have settled in New Orleans from 1757 to the present have had a very different experience than others in the South. New Orleans was a wide-open frontier that attracted gamblers, sailors, con artists, planters, and merchants. Most early Jewish immigrants were bachelors who took Catholic wives, if they married at all. The first congregation, Gates of Mercy, was founded in 1827, and by 1860, four congregations represented Sephardic, French and German, and Polish Jewry. The reform movement, the largest denomination today, took hold after the Civil War with the founding of Temple Sinai. Small as it is in proportion to the population of New Orleans, the Jewish community has made contributions that far exceed their numbers in cultural, educational, and philanthropic gifts to the city.



Black Life in Old New Orleans

Author : Keith Weldon Medley

Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 41,65 MB

Release : 2020-11-02

Category : History

ISBN : 9781455625512

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African Americans, their city, and their past. Capturing 300 years of history and focusing on African American communities' social, cultural, and political pasts, this book captures a significant portion of the diversity that is New Orleans. Author Keith Weldon Medley's research encompasses Congo Square, Old Treme, Louis Armstrong, Fannie C. Williams, Mardi Gras, and more in this groundbreaking work. He creates a comprehensive history of New Orleans and the black experience.



Desire and Disaster in New Orleans

Author : Lynnell L. Thomas

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 405 pages

File Size : 29,4 MB

Release : 2014-08-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0822376350

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Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture—jazz, cuisine, dance—while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster. In this timely book, the Americanist and New Orleans native Lynnell L. Thomas delves into the relationship between tourism, cultural production, and racial politics. She carefully interprets the racial narratives embedded in tourism websites, travel guides, business periodicals, and newspapers; the thoughts of tour guides and owners; and the stories told on bus and walking tours as they were conducted both before and after Katrina. She describes how, with varying degrees of success, African American tour guides, tour owners, and tourism industry officials have used their own black heritage tours and tourism-focused businesses to challenge exclusionary tourist representations. Taking readers from the Lower Ninth Ward to the White House, Thomas highlights the ways that popular culture and public policy converge to create a mythology of racial harmony that masks a long history of racial inequality and structural inequity.



New Orleans After the Promises

Author : Kent B. Germany

Publisher : University of Georgia Press

Page : 485 pages

File Size : 35,63 MB

Release : 2011-08-15

Category : History

ISBN : 0820342580

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In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on Poverty, and emerged with glittering skyscrapers, professional football, and a building so large it had to be called the Superdome. New Orleans after the Promises looks back at that era to explore how a few thousand locals tried to bring the Great Society to Dixie. With faith in God and American progress, they believed that they could conquer poverty, confront racism, establish civic order, and expand the economy. At a time when liberalism seemed to be on the wane nationally, black and white citizens in New Orleans cautiously partnered with each other and with the federal government to expand liberalism in the South. As Kent Germany examines how the civil rights, antipoverty, and therapeutic initiatives of the Great Society dovetailed with the struggles of black New Orleanians for full citizenship, he defines an emerging public/private governing apparatus that he calls the "Soft State": a delicate arrangement involving constituencies as varied as old-money civic leaders and Black Power proponents who came together to sort out the meanings of such new federal programs as Community Action, Head Start, and Model Cities. While those diverse groups struggled--violently on occasion--to influence the process of racial inclusion and the direction of economic growth, they dramatically transformed public life in one of America's oldest cities. While many wonder now what kind of city will emerge after Katrina, New Orleans after the Promises offers a detailed portrait of the complex city that developed after its last epic reconstruction.



They Called Us River Rats

Author : Macon Fry

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 11,21 MB

Release : 2021-05-04

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1496833090

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They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.



Educating the Sons of Sugar

Author : R. Eric Platt

Publisher : University of Alabama Press

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 47,86 MB

Release : 2017-10-10

Category : Education

ISBN : 0817319662

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A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite The education of individual planter classes—cotton, tobacco, sugar—is rarely treated in works of southern history. Of the existing literature, higher education is typically relegated to a footnote, providing only brief glimpses into a complex instructional regime responsive to wealthy planters. R. Eric Platt’s Educating the Sons of Sugar allows for a greater focus on the mindset of French Creole sugar planters and provides a comprehensive record and analysis of a private college supported by planter wealth. Jefferson College was founded in St. James Parish in 1831, surrounded by slave-holding plantations and their cash crop, sugar cane. Creole planters (regionally known as the “ancienne population”) designed the college to impart a “genteel” liberal arts education through instruction, architecture, and geographic location. Jefferson College played host to social class rivalries (Creole, Anglo-American, and French immigrant), mirrored the revival of Catholicism in a region typified by secular mores, was subject to the “Americanization” of south Louisiana higher education, and reflected the ancienne population’s decline as Louisiana’s ruling population. Resulting from loss of funds, the college closed in 1848. It opened and closed three more times under varying administrations (French immigrant, private sugar planter, and Catholic/Marist) before its final closure in 1927 due to educational competition, curricular intransigence, and the 1927 Mississippi River flood. In 1931, the campus was purchased by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and reopened as a silent religious retreat. It continues to function to this day as the Manresa House of Retreats. While in existence, Jefferson College was a social thermometer for the white French Creole sugar planter ethos that instilled the “sons of sugar” with a cultural heritage resonant of a region typified by the management of plantations, slavery, and the production of sugar.



Lexington

Author : Kim Wickens

Publisher : Ballantine Books

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 31,17 MB

Release : 2024-04-23

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0593496728

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous Civil War–era South, and became the most successful sire in American racing history The early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who brandished the ideal combination of stamina and speed. The stallion Lexington, named after the city in Kentucky where he was born, possessed these winning qualities, which pioneering Americans prized. Lexington shattered the world speed record for a four-mile race, showing a war-torn nation that the extraordinary was possible even in those perilous times. He would continue his winning career until deteriorating eyesight forced his retirement in 1855. But once his groundbreaking achievements as a racehorse ended, his role as a sire began. Horses from his bloodline won more money than the offspring of any other Thoroughbred—an annual success that led Lexington to be named America’s leading sire an unprecedented sixteen times. Yet with the Civil War raging, Lexington’s years at a Kentucky stud farm were far from idyllic. Confederate soldiers ran amok, looting freely and kidnapping horses from the top stables. They soon focused on the prized Lexington and his valuable progeny. Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington. Wickens spent years meticulously researching the horse and his legacy—and with Lexington, she presents an absorbing, exciting account that transports readers back to the raucous beginning of American horse racing and introduces them to the stallion at its heart.