CHAMPOMIER PA Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana

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CHAMPOMIER, P.A. Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1859-1860, with an Appendix. Charts and text. 46 pages. Small 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, stitched. an exceptional copy. New Orleans, 1860

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An excellent reference, providing a history of the production of cane sugar from each parish of Louisiana, with the number of hogsheads from each plantation. Charts show comparative output from 1828 through 1858: 88,000 hogsheads in 1828, as opposed to 362,296 in 1858, a considerable uptick in production. This huge growth in production clearly indicates a proportional growth in the slave population, without whom this could not have been accomplished.