The Butlers of Iberville Parish, Louisiana: Dunboyne Plantation in the 1800s

by David D. Plater

In 1833, Edward G. W. and Frances Parke Butler moved to their newly constructed plantation house, Dunboyne, on the banks of the Mississippi River near the village of Bayou Goula. Their experiences at Dunboyne over the next forty years demonstrated the transformations that many land-owning southerners faced in the nineteenth century, from the evolution of agricultural practices and commerce, to the destruction wrought by the Civil War and the transition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807161284
• ISBN13: 9780807161289
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"