Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans
Theresa McCulla
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2024
Online ISBN:
9780226833811
Print ISBN:
9780226833804
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Abstract
Chapter one investigates the auction block and the table—two distinct but intimately related settings in antebellum New Orleans. Before the Civil War, New Orleans hosted the nation’s largest market of enslaved people and a decadent leisure scene that revolved around eating and drinking. These industries fed off of each other. Slave yards, auction houses and exchanges, coffeehouses, billiard saloons, ten-pin alleys, oyster stands, and grand hotels like the St. Louis and the St. Charles proliferated to sustain the men and women who bought and sold enslaved people. Food and drink played a special role in these transactions, forging a singular bond between realms of cuisine and slavery during New Orleans’s earliest years as an American city. Within the blended business-and-leisure world of antebellum New Orleans, bondspeople, food, and drink were conjoined commodities—things presented for sale, often in the same place, at the same time. This chapter also considers the growth of nineteenth-century New Orleans’s population and economy and sites related to eating and drinking.
Keywords: New Orleans, slave auctions, slavery, cooking, dining, coffee, alcohol, hotels, architecture, yellow fever
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History of the Americas
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