Plantation Life: On the Mississippi
by Clement, William Edwards; Landry, Stuart Omer, Jr.; Kane, Harnett T.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): 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
| Preface | p. XI |
| Introduction | p. XVII |
| My Youth on a Sugar Plantation | p. 1 |
| Joseph Erwin - An Iberville Pioneer | p. 32 |
| The Duel Between Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson | p. 45 |
| The Dickinsons of Iberville | p. 67 |
| Col. Andrew Hynes, Soldier Son-In-Law of Joseph Erwin | p. 82 |
| Isaac Erwin of "Shady Grove" | p. 90 |
| Dr. Charles Clement, A Friend of Joseph Erwin | p. 97 |
| Samuel Clement, Early Steamboatman and Critic of Andrew Jackson | p. 107 |
| Michael Schlatre's "Last Island" Story | p. 139 |
| General Gustave S. Rousseau | p. 158 |
| Governor Hebert of Iberville Parish | p. 165 |
| Other Early Planters | p. 170 |
| Miscellanies | p. 175 |
| Belle Grove - Glory of the Plantation Past | p. 195 |
| Some Pertinent Thoughts "All Goes Back to the Land" | p. 199 |
| Afterword | p. 214 |
| Appendix (Genealogies) | p. 219 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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