Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1979 - 5/31/1981

Funding Totals

$25,000.00 (approved)
$25,000.00 (awarded)


A Social and Economic History of Colonial and Antebellum Acadian Louisiana

FAIN: RS-144679-79

University of Southwestern Louisiana (Lafayette, LA)
Judith Gentry (Project Director: September 1979 to present)

To conduct an in-depth historical study of the Acadian region of southwestern Louisiana which will examine kinship patterns, rural-urban tensions, prices, fecundity, morbidity, and other similar problems. (Second P.I. was John Cameron.)