The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots by Peter M. Wolf

The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux: A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots

Peter M. Wolf

478 pages • first pub 2022 (view editions) user-added

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Peter M. Wolf unearths Southern Jewish history in a major new work, with a foreword by Calvin Trillin.A penniless, illiterate, Jewish thirteen-year-old from France crosses the Atlantic alone. Landing in raucous and polyglot New Orleans in 1837, th...

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