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the Mississippi frontier in colonial times

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the Mississippi frontier in colonial times

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Focusing on the French Creole communities and agricultural practices on both sides of the Mississippi River, this volume provides a comprehensive history of colonial settlement in the Illinois Country.

Carl Ekberg presents a completely new perspective on Illinois history by examining a number of previously unexplored issues: the medieval style open field agriculture, the first use of African slaves in the region as agricultural laborers, the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans, and the significance of the different mentalites of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans in early Illinois.

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English
Pages
359

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French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times
July 20, 2000, University of Illinois Press
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Cover of: French roots in the Illinois country
French roots in the Illinois country: the Mississippi frontier in colonial times
1998, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

French longlots in North America
Settlements in the Illinois country
Open-field agriculture
Habitants, slaves, and engagés
Tilling the land in colonial Illinois
Agricultural commerce in the Mississippi Valley.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-339 and index.

Published in
Urbana

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.3/03
Library of Congress
F544 .E38 1998, F544.E38 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 359 p. :
Number of pages
359

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL659545M
Internet Archive
frenchrootsinill0000ekbe
ISBN 10
0252023641
LCCN
97004861
OCLC/WorldCat
36767608
Library Thing
7866097

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French Canadian families lived separately, as Peter Kalm, a Swedish (born an ethnic Finn) traveler and diarist, observed; each family settled independently on its own elongated parcel of land.
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