dc.contributor.advisor | Woodward, Ralph Lee, Jr. | |
dc.contributor.author | Burton, Helen Sophie | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-11T15:10:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-11T15:10:57Z | |
dc.date.created | 2002 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | en_US |
dc.identifier | aleph-976103 | en_US |
dc.identifier | Microfilm Diss. 801. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/33654 | |
dc.description.abstract | Natchitoches, a town the French settled along the frontier of Gallic Louisiana and Spanish Texas, was an important outpost in the colonial era and the first European town within the modern boundary of the state of Louisiana. This colonial community study covers from 1714, when the French began settling the area, to 1803, the Louisiana Purchase, and has two main parts. The first section employs a household level social history approach that examines the free and enslaved populations. These statistical conclusions are then used to cast light on the town's role along the Louisiana-Texas frontier. The social section concludes that the enslaved and free groups forged unique communities that formed alongside one another in the town. The second section examines the three principle aspects of the economy: trade with the Indians and Spaniards, production of cash crops especially tobacco, and the frontier exchange economy that dominated the cash-poor economy for the duration of the colonial period and thrived with the participation of all town denizens¿Indians and Africans as well as the French, females and males, and enslaved and free. The town had French settlers and African slaves with few Indian or m¿tis , the offspring of Indian and French parents. As a result of these demographics, the French free population was able to employ their established laws, customs, traditions, and language to create a cultural hegemony in the new town that facilitated a continued control over potentially hostile peoples, especially slaves of African descent and Native American and Hispanic neighbors. Greatly aided by the neighboring Spanish population in Texas's failed attempts to establish good relations with the Indians who formed a majority along the frontier for most of the colonial period, the French strove to appease the Native Americans and Spanish and turn their precarious position along the frontier into a successful town that dominated the region. | |
dc.format.extent | xviii, 334 leaves | en_US |
dc.format.medium | Format: Print | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Texas Christian University dissertation | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | AS38.B86 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Frontier and pioneer life--Louisiana | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | French--Louisiana--History--18th century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Natchitoches (La.)--History | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Natchitoches (La.)--Economic conditions | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Louisiana--History--To 1803 | en_US |
dc.title | Family and economy in frontier Louisiana: colonial Natchitoches, 1714-1803 | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
etd.degree.department | Department of History | |
etd.degree.level | Doctoral | |
local.college | AddRan College of Liberal Arts | |
local.department | History | |
local.academicunit | Department of History | |
dc.type.genre | Dissertation | |
local.subjectarea | History | |
dc.identifier.callnumber | Main Stacks: AS38 .B86 (Regular Loan) | |
dc.identifier.callnumber | Special Collections: AS38 .B86 (Non-Circulating) | |
etd.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | |
etd.degree.grantor | Texas Christian University | |