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Download or read book Rural Life in the Lower Mississippi Valley About 1803 (Classic Reprint) written by William Oscar Scroggs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rural Life in the Lower Mississippi Valley About 1803 Mississippi just above New Orleans. The Germans were very industrious and soon came to play the role of pur veyors to the city, furnishing the urban population with vegetables, fruits, wild fowl, and fish. It was their cus tom every Friday evening to load their pirogues with their produce and oat with the current to the city, Where on Saturdays they would hold a market along the river front.3 There was also a large French element among the inhabitants of the German Coasts, but the Germans showed a tendency to resist assimilation. They pre served their language and customs, and though having none of the open and affable disposition of the French, they are described as being very honest and kind and hospitable to strangers. They owned few slaves, did their own field work, and lived comfortably without ac quiring great wealth.4 The two German Coasts in 1803 contained about inhabitants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."