Louisiana Interest

Life on the Whitney Plantation: 100 Years After Slavery paperback - 2024 by Vernita Hills & Dr. Tracie Ferrell

A booklet containing information about the museum, photographs of Woodrow Nash's Children of Whitney statues, and corresponding quotes from people who were enslaved in southeast Louisiana.

Bouki Fait Gombo Paperback – August 27, 2014
by Ibrahima Seck

Chained to the Land: Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations (Real Voices, Real History) Paperback – June 3, 2014
by Lynette Ater Tanner

A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club) Paperback – Enhanced, September 1, 1994
by Ernest J. Gaines (Author)

The Jailhouse Lawyer Hardcover – July 8, 2025
by Calvin Duncan (Author), Sophie Cull (Author)

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862--1880 Paperback – May 1, 2001
by John C. Rodrigue (Author)

Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table Hardcover – February 7, 2023 by Toya Boudy

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States Paperback – October 1, 2002
by Zora Neale Hurston

Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) Paperback – January 18, 2018
by Rashauna Johnson

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America Hardcover – September 30, 2025
by Sonja Cherry-Paul (Adapter), Clint Smith (Author)

The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love Hardcover – Illustrated, March 4, 2019
by Bryan Wagner (Author)