The Commercial, Industrial and Financial Outlook for New Orleans
Author: Illinois Central Railroad Company
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 140
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 972
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 88
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-29
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1107354722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based mode of production with which they were allied, New Orleans merchants faced growing pressures during the antebellum era. Their complacent failure to improve the port's infrastructure or invest in manufacturing left them vulnerable to competition from the fast-developing industrial economy of the North, weaknesses that were fatally exposed during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Changes to regional and national economic structures after the Union victory prevented New Orleans from recovering its commercial dominance, and the former first-rank American city quickly devolved into a notorious site of political corruption and endemic poverty.
Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 1876
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 964
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 1062
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 1626
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Moore Colby
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 962
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Baker
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1620976048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis "A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century New Orleans that holds up a dark mirror to our own times."—Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands. Building outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city's troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses readers in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation's largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion—but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing. A major new work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.