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Social Facts, Legal Fictions, And The Attribution Of Slave Status: The Puzzle Of Prescription, Rebecca J. Scott

Articles

In case after case, prosecutors, judges and juries therefore still struggle to come up with a definition of slavery, looking for some set of criteria or indicia that will enable them to discern whether the phenomenon they are observing constitutes enslavement. In this definitional effort, contemporary jurists may imagine that in the past, surely the question was simpler: someone either was or was not a slave. However, the existence of a set of laws declaring that persons could be owned as property did not, even in the nineteenth century, answer by itself the question of whether a given person was …

Defying Convention: Atypical Perspectives Of Slavery In Antebellum New Orleans, Amanda N. Carr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

During the first half of the nineteenth century, slavery became a vital economic component upon which the success of the southern states in America rested. Cotton was king, and slavery was the peculiar institution that ensured its dominance in the domestic and international markets of America. Popular portrayals, however, often neglect the complicated dynamics of American slavery and instead depict the institution in simplistic terms. The traditional view has emphasized an image of white southerners as slaveholders and blacks as slaves. In New Orleans, the lives of three men—all of whom were tied to slavery in varying capacities—reveal a much …

Small-Scale Catchment Analysis Of Water Stress In Wet Regions Of The U.S.: An Example From Louisiana, Hisham Eldardiry, Emad H. Habib, David M. Borrok

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Groundwater is increasingly being overdrafted in the Southeastern U.S., despite abundant rainfall and the apparent availability of surface water. Using the state of Louisiana as an example, the current study quantifies the stresses on water resources and investigates the potential for opportunities to use surface water in lieu of groundwater pumping. The assessment is based on a fine watershed scale (12-digit Hydrological Unit Code [HUC] boundaries) water balance between the availability of surface and groundwater and surface water and groundwater demand. Water demand includes environmental flows, as well as public supply, rural domestic, industrial, power generation, agricultural, and aquaculture sectors. …

Dear Hank Williams, Nancy Haight

Children's Book and Media Review

It’s 1948. Tate P. Ellerbee, age eleven, lives in a small town in Louisiana with her great-aunt, great-uncle, and younger brother, nicknamed Frog. Every Saturday night, Tate’s family listens to Hank Williams, a rising star on the radio program Louisiana Hayride, and Tate just knows she and he are kindred spirits. So, when Tate’s teacher begins the school year by asking the students to write to a pen pal, Tate knows just who to choose. Tate introduces herself, her family, and members of the town to Hank through the letters she writes. She is determined to sing like her mother, …

Olive In An Oak Grove: A Novel, Haley Quinton

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Olive Delaney has not seen her dysfunctional family in seven years, but now she has to return to her childhood home in Louisiana because her father is dying. She is reunited with her simultaneously strict-but-absent parents, her twin brother, Hugo, with whom she was once close but has now grown apart, and her childhood best friend and possible lost love, Owen. Olive must learn how to be part of her family again while also dealing with the problems and family secrets of the past. The novella shuttles back and forth in time--every other chapter contains an event from Olive’s childhood …

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Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: America's Cycle Of Violence 7-8-16, Michael Yelnosky

Law School Blogs

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The “True American”: William H. Christy And The Rise Of The Louisiana Nativist Movement, 1835-1855, Brett R. Todd

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In New Orleans during the 1830s, Irish immigration became a source of tension between newly settled Anglo-American elites and the long-established Creole hegemony. Out of this tension, in 1835 Anglo-American elites established the Louisiana Native American Association (LNAA) to block Irish immigrants from gaining citizenship and, ultimately, the right to vote. The Whig Party, whom most Louisiana Anglo-Americans supported, promoted nativism to prevent naturalized Irish from voting Democrat, the preferred party of the Creoles. This study will argue that the LNAA, under the leadership of William H. Christy, was not merely a reaction to increased Irish immigration, but was also …

Reporting Rumors In The Reconstruction South: The Aftermath Of The New Orleans Riot Of 1866, Joanna L. Gunnufsen

Honors Theses

At the end of the American Civil War, political divisiveness, economic turmoil, and violence plagued the South. Riots occurred across the Reconstruction South, from New Orleans to Memphis. Though scholars have examined the causes of Reconstruction violence, this study examines the role of newspapers in promulgating fear, paranoia, and violence in Southern communities in the wake of the New Orleans Riot of 1866. This thesis analyzes nine Louisiana newspapers to investigate whether newspapers published local and national rumors of violence or potential uprisings in the first three months after the riot. Though the rise of telegraphic news aided the rapid …

Analytical And Comparative Variations On Selected Provisions Of Book One Of The Louisiana Civil Code With Special Consideration Of The Role Of Fault In The Determination Of Marital Disputes, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Thomas Carbonneau

This article is intended to be a type of "structuralist" commentary upon selected provisions in Book I of the Louisiana Civil Code. Its sole purpose is to illustrate, both for pedagogical and doctrinal reasons, some of the analytical difficulties to which these code provisions might give rise when they are read in a close textual fashion. It should be emphasized that this study is a textual commentary and not a historical assessment of the sources or origins of the code texts – the latter analysis is outside the purview of the present endeavor. Accordingly, this article consists of a critical …

Microbial Ecology Of Waterborne Pathogens In Sus Scofra And Odocoileus Virginianus In The Jackson Bienville Wildlife Management Area, Jaymes Hunter Collins

Doctoral Dissertations

Previous studies have demonstrated that feral swine (Sus scofra ) are significant reservoirs for a number of pathogens that present a potential threat to wildlife and humans. Despite this, few studies have gone beyond quantifying the incidence of these pathogens to further probe their ecology within a specific habitat or ecosystem.

Overall, the objective of this study was to characterize three potential reservoirs in a feral swine infested habitat; two ungulates, and one aquatic reservoir. Our study area was the Jackson-Bienville Wildlife Management Area (J-B WMA). We chose four waterborne bacteria: Brucella spp., Leptospira interrogans, Salmonella enterica, and Helicobacter …

Innovate, Collaborate & Serve: Louisiana’S “Lift” – A Legal Incubator And Accelerator Program Startup Guide, Amy Duncan

Journal of Experiential Learning

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Morse, Alexander Porter, 1842-1921 (Sc 2967), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text transcription (Click on "Additional Files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 2967. Letter, 9 December 1861, of A. P. Morse, serving with the First Louisiana Cavalry. Writing to his father from camp near Bowling Green, Kentucky, he describes troop numbers, movements and fortifications in the area. He also refers to an outbreak of measles and to dining with an officer involved in the Battle of Belmont near Columbus, Kentucky.

Guide For “Los Isleños” Field Trip, Conference Of Latin Americanist Geographers, New Orleans, 2017, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Protocol And Results From The First Season Of Captive-Rearing Whooping Cranes For A Non-Migratory Release In Louisiana, Glenn H. Olsen, Jane N. Chandler

Proceedings of the North American Crane Workshop

The principal historic range of the whooping crane (Grus americana) consisted of the tall grass prairies and wetlands of southwest Louisiana, Texas, and parts of Mexico (Allen 1952). Whooping cranes migrated there from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Dakotas, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and breeding grounds of the remnant flock in and near Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada.

[Alexandria, La] Louisiana Democrat, July 13, 1859-April 25, 1860; November 2, 16, 1864, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the [Alexandria, Louisiana] Louisiana Democrat, July 13, 1859-April 25, 1860 and November 2 and 16, 1864.

Army And Navy Messenger [Shreveport, La], September 15, 1864-March 2, 1865, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the Army and Navy Messenger, published in Shreveport, Louisiana, September 15, 1864-March 2, 1865.

[Alexandria, La] The Constitutional, August 4, 1860-June 1, 1861, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from The Constitutional published in Alexandria, Louisiana, August 4, 1860-June 1, 1861.

[Baton Rouge, La] Daily Gazette & Comet, Jnuary 3, 1860-December 29, 1860, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the Daily Gazette & Comet, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the period January 3, 1860 through December 29, 1860.

[Baton Rouge, La] Daily Advocate, September 3, 1860-October 25, 1861, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the Daily Advocate, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the time period September 3, 1860-October 25, 1861.

New Orleans Bee, March 31, 1863-August 11, 1864, Vicki Betts

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A few selected articles from the New Orleans Bee, published in New Orleans, Louisiana, covering March 31, 1863 through August 11, 1864.

New Orleans Picayune, May-December 1855, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the New Orleans Picayune, published in New Orleans, Louisiana, taken from May through December, 1855.

Natchitoches Union, October 1861-December 1862, Vicki Betts

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Selections from the Natchitoches Union, published in Natchitoches, Louisiana, covering from October 1861 through December 25, 1862.

New Orleans Daily Delta, 1855, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the New Orleans Daily Delta, published in New Orleans, Louisiana, from the year 1855.

New Orleans Picayune, January 3, 1863-March 7, 1865, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the New Orleans Picayune, published in New Orleans, Louisiana, taken from January 3, 1863 through March 7, 1865.

[Shreveport, La] South-Western, April 1863-March 1864, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from The South-Western, published in Shreveport, Louisiana, from April 1863 through March 1864.

Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, La], January 7, 1860-January 4, 1862, Vicki Betts

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Selected articles from the Sugar Planter, published in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from January 7, 1860 through January 4, 1862.

Spatio-Temporal Modeling Of Louisiana Land Subsidence Using High Resolution Geo-Spatial Data, Hanyu Xiang

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Problems caused by subsidence are very common in many areas of the world, and this kind of problems may be serious and threatening to living people in Louisiana. Adverse subsidence in Louisiana will cause serious problems, such as excessive wetland formation or land loss, if we can’t make appropriate treatments, and this topic will also be what we focus on in this research (Kent and Dokka 2012). For subsidence survey, we can use three kinds of common techniques, leveling, InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) and GPS observation (Lu, C. et al. 2012). In this research, high accuracy of subsidence data …

The Antidemocratic Sixth Amendment, Janet Moore

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Criminal procedure experts often claim that poor people have no Sixth Amendment right to choose their criminal defense lawyers. These experts insist that the Supreme Court has reserved the Sixth Amendment right to choose for the small minority of defendants who can afford to hire counsel. This Article upends that conventional wisdom with new doctrinal, theoretical, and practical arguments supporting a Sixth Amendment right to choose for all defendants, including the overwhelming majority who are indigent. The Article’s fresh case analysis shows the Supreme Court’s “no-choice” statements are dicta, which the Court’s own reasoning and rulings refute. The Article’s new …

Ant Diversity And Community Structure In Coastal Dunes And Wetlands, Xuan Chen

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

How do many species live in a certain place? How does species composition changes among habitats? And what mechanisms decide species distribution? These are fundamental questions in community ecology. I first investigated ant diversity in two coastal ecosystems (dunes and wetlands) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and then used the distribution patterns to infer assembly processes that structure ant communities in coastal areas. Specifically, the following hypotheses are tested: (1) coastal systems support lower ant diversity due to the unsuitable environment; (2) species living near the seashore are a subset of those exist near inland; (3) deterministic processes are …