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Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8] Between 1723 and 1769, most African slaves imported to Louisiana were from modern-day Senegal, Mali, Congo, and Benin and many thousands being imported to Louisiana from there.
Slave owners included a comparatively small number of people of at least partial African ancestry in each of the original Thirteen Colonies and later states and territories that allowed slavery; [2][3] in some early cases, black Americans also had white indentured servants. It has been widely claimed that an African former indentured servant ...
Lela Mae Holden Walls. Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Mae's story was unearthed when she spoke to historian ...
e. The 1811 German Coast uprising was a slave rebellion which occurred in the Territory of Orleans from January 8–10, 1811. It occurred on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the modern-day Louisiana parishes of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson. [ 1 ] The rebellion was the largest of its kind in the history of the United ...
Antoine Dubuclet. Antoine Dubuclet Jr. (1810 – December 18, 1887) was the State Treasurer of Louisiana from 1868 to 1878. Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation. After the war, he was the first person of African descent to hold the office of Louisiana treasurer.
Marie Thérèse Coincoin. Marie Thérèse Coincoin, [ a ] born as Coincoin (with no surname), [ 1 ] also known as Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin, [ 2 ] and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, [ 3 ][ 4 ] (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, [ 1 ] and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches ...
May 30, 1974[2] Melrose Plantation, also known as Yucca Plantation, is a National Historic Landmarklocated in the unincorporated community of Melrosein Natchitoches Parishin north central Louisiana. This is one of the largest plantations in the United States built by and for free people of color. The land was granted to Louis Metoyer, who had ...