Join us with New Orleans history teacher David Michael Schneider for a presentation and signing celebrating the launch of his debut book, CRIME IN COLONIAL NEW ORLEANS: Terror on the Frontier. --- The French colonial empire was a brutal money-making machine. And French society, which was carefully organized by the Church and the Crown, broke down in the environment of the Gulf Coast, from New Orleans to Biloxi. The Catholic church lost control of social morals. The colonial regime was unable,...
