New Orleans as it is

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Author

Anonymous

Title

New Orleans as it is : Its manners and customs--morals--fashionable life--profanation of the Sabbath--prostitution--licentiousness--slave markets and slavery, &c. &c. &c.

Original Publication

Utica, NY: De Witt C. Grove, 1849.

Credits

Sam Lamb and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Yale University Library)

Language

English

LoC Class

F396: United States local history: Old Southwest. Lower Mississippi Valley

Subject

New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78285

Release Date

March 23, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.“TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION.” — NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS:
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.NEW ORLEANS AS IT IS. — ITS SETTLEMENT. — ITS LOCATION. — ITS HISTORY. — FIRST IMPULSE TO COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE. — THE PURCHASE OF LOUISIANA. — STEAM NAVIGATION. — CHARACTER OF THE FIRST SETTLERS. — THE FLAT-BOATMEN. — CITY GOVERNMENT AND POLICE. — COMMON SCHOOLS. — THE LOCATION OF THE CITY. — SOURCES OF DISEASE. — WATER IN NEW ORLEANS. — POPULATION. — THE CREOLES. — SPLENDID BUILDINGS. — THE OLD SPANISH CATHEDRAL. — PUBLIC GROUNDS. — THE PLACE D’ARMES. — DWELLING HOUSES. — “GOING SOUTH TO SEEK A FORTUNE.” — THE CHURCHES. — THE SABBATH. — SOCIAL RELATIONS. — ILLEGITIMATE FAMILIES. — CONCUBINAGE. — KEPT MISTRESSES. — EXTENT OF LICENTIOUSNESS. — REGULAR PROSTITUTES. — PROSTITUTION OF WIVES. — FASHIONABLE LADIES. — AMALGAMATION. — A MAN SELLING HIS OWN CHILDREN. — SLAVE GIRLS HIRED AS BED COMPANIONS. — QUADROON GIRLS BOUGHT FOR BED COMPANIONS. — DISREGARD OF THE SABBATH. — DRINKING HOUSES. — “DANGEROUS AND SUSPICIOUS.” — VAGRANTS. — DEPOSITORIES OF THE DEAD. — SLAVERY. — APOLOGIES FOR SLAVERY. — FARE OF SLAVES ON PLANTATIONS. — WHIPPING OF SLAVES. — A WOMAN WHIPPED TO DEATH. — THE “BREAK-DOWN WHIPPINGS.” — WOMAN WHIPPING ON THE PLANTATIONS. — RESTRICTIONS UPON SLAVES. — CHAIN-GANGS OF WOMEN. — SLAVES COMPELLED TO FIND WORK. — CHIVALROUS LADIES. — SLAVE MARKET. — DEPRAVITY OF SLAVE-HOLDERS. — REFLECTIONS.
4. 4.Transcriber's Note:

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