{"product_id":"hardscrabble-to-hallelujah-volume-1-bayou-terrebonne-legacies-of-terrebonne-parish-louisiana-9780989759410","title":"Hardscrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 1: Bayou Terrebonne: Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of a 2017 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book represents the first time that the known history and a significant amount of new information has been compiled into a single written record about one of the most important eras in the south-central coastal bayou parish of Terrebonne. The book makes clear the unique geographical, topographical, and sociological conditions that beckoned the first settlers who developed the large estates that became sugar plantations. This first of four planned volumes chronicles details about founders and their estates along Bayou Terrebonne from its headwaters in the northern civil parish to its most southerly reaches near the Gulf of Mexico. Those and other parish plantations along important waterways contributed significantly to the dominance of King Sugar in Louisiana. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The rich soils and opportunities of the area became the overriding reason many well-heeled Anglo-Americans moved there to join Francophone locals in cultivating the crop. From that nineteenth century period up to the twentieth century's side effects of World Wars I and II, \u003ci\u003eHard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume I: Bayou Terrebonne\u003c\/i\u003e describes important yet widely unrecognized geography and history. Today, cultural and physical legacies such as ex-slave-founded communities and place names endure from the time that the planter society was the driving economic force of this fascinating region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\/J.P.C., L.L.C\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780989759410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.30h x 9.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Christopher Everette Cenac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537416188085,"sku":"9780989759410","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8ee30e8d-a22c-4288-a0d5-75bdb7093cd6.jpg?v=1779169451","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hardscrabble-to-hallelujah-volume-1-bayou-terrebonne-legacies-of-terrebonne-parish-louisiana-9780989759410","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}