Economy Hall author-Karl Patterson Schmidt NY: Hyperion [2004]

NY: Hyperion [2004]

issued 2 years before the US edition

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Economy Hall author-Karl Patterson Schmidt NY: Hyperion [2004]It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Socit dEconomie et dAssistance Mutuelle built a community and held it together through the era of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow terrorism. Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood follows Ludger Boguille, his family, and friends