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This book will make valuable contributions to the growing scholarship on the impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World.
--Journal of American Ethnic History

" A very valuable and well-written work. Dessens cogently establishes the significance of the Saint-Domingan refugees on the Louisiana landscape, and encourages the field to further investigate their far-reaching influence. Future scholars of this disapora are deeply indebted to Dessens for laying this scholarly foundation and for establishing its significance so convincingly."
--Southern Historian

" Students of New Orleans and Louisiana will find this a serviceable introduction to many of the best-documented refugees and their contributions to the robust French Creole society that took shape in the early decades of the nineteenth century, echos of which persist even today."
--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

" This focused and nuanced look at Louisiana at the turn of the nineteenth sentury underscores how far scholarship on Haitian refugees in the United States has come with the rise of Atlantic studies. Much to offer students and scholars of New Orleans and the Haitian Revolution."
--Journal of Southern History

"A thoroughly academic study, but also very readable, and it adds considerably to the relatively small body of research available to local historians and genealogists."

"Provides the best available introduction to the subject of the Saint-Domingue refugees, their wanderings, and their ultimately successful quest for a North American safe haven."
--American Historical Review

An extremely detailed, intricate account of life during the early days of the Republic in the swiftly transforming city of New Orleans.
--Transatlantica

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