Caribbean New Orleans : Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, Hardcover by Vidal, Cécile, ISBN 1469645181, ISBN-13 9781469645186, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

"... offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cécile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles, especially Saint-Domingue, which shaped the city's development through the eighteenth century"--