Main entry:

Dudley, Tara A., author.

Title & Author:

Building antebellum New Orleans : free people of color and their influence / Tara A. Dudley.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
©2021

Description:

xiv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, plans ; 24 cm.

Series:

Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-289) and index.
Part I. Ownership: possessing the built environment. The gens de couleur libres' acquisition of property -- The ramifications of use and location -- Part II. Engagement: forming and transforming the built environment. The architecture of the Dolliole and Soulié families -- "Uncommon industry": gens de couleur libres builders in antebellum New Orleans -- "Raised to the trade": building practices of gens de couleur libres builders in antebellum New Orleans -- The status quo: French, Creole, and Anglo builders and architects in antebellum New Orleans -- Part III. Entrepreneurship: controlling the built environment. Money, power, and status in the building trades -- Conclusion. The gens de couleur libres' development of self and group identity through ownership, formation, transformation, and control of the built environment.

Summary:

"Building Antebellum New Orleans examines the architectural activities of New Orleans's gens de couleur libres--free people of color with a mixture of black and European, usually French or Spanish, ancestry. Architectural historian Tara Dudley focuses on their influence on the physical growth of New Orleans and on the historical, cultural, and economic implications of their contributions to nineteenth-century American architecture"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city's most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres--free people of color--in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley recreates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

9781477323021 hardcover
1477323023 hardcover
electronic book
9781477323038
9781477323045

Subject:

African American architects Louisiana New Orleans History 19th century.
African American architecture Louisiana New Orleans 19th century.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Free African Americans Louisiana New Orleans History 19th century.
Free Black people Louisiana New Orleans History 19th century.
Architects and builders Louisiana New Orleans History 19th century.
Architectes noirs américains Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture noire américaine Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Noirs américains affranchis Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Histoire 19e siècle.
Personnes noires affranchies Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Histoire 19e siècle.
Architectes et entrepreneurs Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Histoire 19e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Civilization African influences
African American architects
African American architecture
Architects and builders
Architecture
Free African Americans
Free Black people
New Orleans (La.) Civilization African influences.
Louisiana New Orleans
United States

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Lateral exchanges.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316875
Call No.: 316875
Copy: 1
Status: Available