Tara Dudley
Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence
Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence
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Building Antebellum New Orleans is a book that explores the architectural activities and influence of free people of color in New Orleans during the nineteenth century. It focuses on two prominent families, the Dollioles and Souliés, and how they used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. The book provides new information on the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds to the canon on New Orleans architecture.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 15 January 2024
Publisher: University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking and meticulously researched exploration of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who reshaped the cultural and architectural heritage of New Orleans.
New Orleans' Creole architecture is one of the city's most iconic features, yet studies of it have primarily focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley delves into the architectural endeavors and influence of gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, in a city where mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property.
New Orleans transformed into an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population between 1820 and 1850. Amidst the dramatic economic and cultural changes of the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley crafts an intimate microhistory of two prominent Black developer families, the Dollioles and Souliés, to examine how these individuals used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and collective identity and stability. Through extensive archival research, Dudley meticulously reconstructs the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color, while also offering new and revelatory insights into the canon of New Orleans architecture.
Weight: 540g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781477328552
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