![]() Racial bondage grounded the region’s economy and formed the heart of white identity and black exploitation. ![]() The Red River played a significant role in regional settlement and protecting this distorted racial dynamic. Continuity, not change, characterized the region. This work argues that when freedom arrived, this unbroken fidelity to mastery and to the inheritances and ideology of slavery gave rise to a visceral regime of violence. Racial bondage defined the region, and slaveholders’ commitment to mastery and Confederate doctrine continued after the Civil War. The alluvial soil provided wealth for the mobile, market-driven slaveholders but created a cold, brutal world for the commoditized slaves that cleared the land and cultivated cotton. ![]() Louisiana’s Red River region was shaped by and founded on the logic of racial power, the economics of slavery, and white supremacy. ![]()
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