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10,000 refugees from San-Domingue/Haiti suddenly land in New Orleans. Thousands get homes and jobs. Thousands are re-enslaved at the docks.
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 by Jason Berry
"The 1809 Immigration of Saint-Domingue Refugees to New Orleans: Reception, Integration and Impact" by Paul F. Lachance
"The Saint-Domingue Refugees and the Preservation of Gallic Culture in Early New Orleans" by Nathalie Dessens
"Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution" by Rebecca J. Scott
"'She... Refuses to Deliver Up Herself as the Slave of Your Petitioner': Emigres, Enslavement and the 1808 Digest of the Civil Laws" by Rebecca J. Scott
https://64parishes.org/refugee-revolution
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