Louisiana: Non-Fiction

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

One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets Paperback – September 9, 2008
by Bliss Broyard

The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820--1860 Paperback – February 1, 2007
by Richard Follett

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)

Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 1998
by James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Author)

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
by LeeAnna Keith (Author)

Freedom's Dance: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans Hardcover – February 26, 2018
by Karen Celestan (Author), Eric Waters (Photographer)

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood Hardcover - February 25, 2021 by Fatima Shaik

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike (True Crime) Paperback – November 14, 2016
by John DeSantis (Author), Foreword by Burnell Tolbert (Foreword)

Sculptor Woodrow Nash: How I Search for My Ancestors

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas Paperback – November 18, 2013
by Rebecca Solnit (Author), Rebecca Snedeker (Author)

Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization Paperback
by Arnold R. Hirsch (Editor), Joseph Logsdon (Editor)