Creole City by Nathalie Dessens

Some valuable works of history are more source driven than thesis driven, such as published diaries or edited collections of primary sources. At first glance, Nathalie Dessens’s Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans, the story of early antebellum New Orleans as told in the letters of Jean Boze to Jean Francois Henri de Sainte-Geme, appears to be such a book. Boze and St. Geme were both refugees of the Haitian Revolution who, likely, befriended each other in Cuba, their first ...