Essay on Lewis Thompson's Plantation, Rapides Parish Louisiana Submitted by Molly Urquhart ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Rapides Parish Louisiana Archives History - Essay January 1, 1949 Book Title: Essays In Southern History http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/woodville/thompson2.htm This essay, "Lewis Thompson, A Carolinian and His Louisiana Plantation, 1848-1888: A Study in Absentee Ownership" was written by J. Carlyle Sitterson, then a Professor of History of the University of North Carolina, later a Chancellor there. The book was Essays in Southern History, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/woodville/thompson.htm Abstract for entire Lewis Thompson Collection at the University of North Carolina Additional Comments: The names of Clark, Carnal, Thompson, Hardy, Norfleet, Smallwood figure in this essay