Secession
During the American war, Louisiana had an unusual political climate. Nearly half of the Louisiana population came mainly from slaves. The state additionally held the highest free blacks’ population than anywhere else. It is in Louisiana that the southern part lost the last bid to control Mississippi. Just like other states, Louisiana undergoes secession.
Secession is described as the act of a state leaving the Union. The actual reason for this was actually due to states’ rights. In Louisiana, according to the representatives, the reasons to secede is to preserve and protect slavery in the state. The civil war in Louisiana begins just with the first talk of secession and comes to a halt with the last tragic war days. The African-American troops from Louisiana who struggled on behalf of the Union were the first black units in the Civil War to participate in the large-scale battle against the white soldiers. Many American soldiers lost their lives during the civil war. During the war, the military gave a steadily high demand for manufactured and agricultural goods, and the production of the said goods exploded in the economy. As the war continued, the civilians on the home front confronted goods shortages and rising costs as an ever-increasing number of products were diverted into the military. The Louisiana economy was left in total chaos. A small number of southern slave planters accumulated extraordinary fortunes and became wealthy due to the impact of the war. Large and many sugar plantations in Louisiana were broken down into smaller units due to the impacts of the civil war. Most Louisianans, the black and white, poor and rich, their social way of life remained just the same during, before and even after the war. The reason they were resistant to change is that the white social leaders made the businessmen and officials from the north to conform to the customs of the Louisianans.