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The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana

The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana

The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana

David Plater

Louisiana State University Press
336 pages
$35

“Based on voluminous primary source material, The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana offers an intimate picture of a wealthy nineteenth-century family and the turmoil they faced as a system based on the enslavement of others unraveled.”

–From the publisher

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