This anthology constitutes the first attempt to fill comprehensively one of the most enduring lacunae in Louisiana historiography--the French-Antillian migration to the lower Mississippi Valley.
Not only were these immigrants largely responsibl.
These newcomers were subsequently joined by far smaller numbers of French citizens from Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Generations of Louisiana historians have neglected this influx, involving more than 10,000 Saint-Domingue Refugees between 1792 and 1810.
This anthology constitutes the first attempt to fill comprehensively one of the most enduring lacunae in Louisiana historiography--the French-Antillian migration to the lower Mississippi Valley