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INTRODUCTION
This work is an account of the Negro in Louisiana covering the period from the founding of New Orleans to the present day. It is more specifically, however, the story of the Negro in New Orleans, which must of necessity contain much of the Negro life of the surrounding parishes with which the life of New Orleans was closely connected.
In a work of this type, covering such a lengthy stretch of history, it has been found necessary to consult various studies dealing with the Negro in the history of the State as well as that of the United States as a whole. In addition to this, the workers compiling this study have resorted to most of the public documents found in local archives and day-by-day accounts as taken from the files of all local newspapers. In regard to the last-named phase of gathering information for this book, the workers have been ably assisted by workers engaged in copying vast stores of material from the files of the daily newspapers of New Orleans published during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods. This fact adds greatly to the originality and authenticity of much of the material found within this book.
In order that the reader may gain a more through understanding of the complexity of circumstances and conditions by which the Negro was forcibly inducted into America, and rigorously regimented for purposes of exploitation by a civilization more complex than his own, the first chapters of this book deal with the African background of the slaves brought to America, and more specifically those brought into Louisiana.
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