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9781565544369

Plantation Life: On the Mississippi

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  • ISBN13:

    9781565544369

  • ISBN10:

    1565544366

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-01-01
  • Publisher: Firebird Pr
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Summary

The steamboat illustrated on the front of this jacket cover is the famous Princess, one of the finest afloat on the Mississippi River one hundred years ago. In 1852 as she was rounding the bend at Duncan's Point (shown on the endpaper map and now called Conrad's Point) about ten miles below Baton Rouge, the boilers exploded with a frightful loss of life. The disaster occurred in front of the Conrad "cottage" where a descendant, the late G. Mather Conrad, of New Orleans, was born and lived as a youth. The "cottage," much written of, was burned recently.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. XI
Introductionp. XVII
My Youth on a Sugar Plantationp. 1
Joseph Erwin - An Iberville Pioneerp. 32
The Duel Between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinsonp. 45
The Dickinsons of Ibervillep. 67
Col. Andrew Hynes, Soldier Son-In-Law of Joseph Erwinp. 82
Isaac Erwin of "Shady Grove"p. 90
Dr. Charles Clement, A Friend of Joseph Erwinp. 97
Samuel Clement, Early Steamboatman and Critic of Andrew Jacksonp. 107
Michael Schlatre's "Last Island" Storyp. 139
General Gustave S. Rousseaup. 158
Governor Hebert of Iberville Parishp. 165
Other Early Plantersp. 170
Miscellaniesp. 175
Belle Grove - Glory of the Plantation Pastp. 195
Some Pertinent Thoughts "All Goes Back to the Land"p. 199
Afterwordp. 214
Appendix (Genealogies)p. 219
Indexp. 231
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