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  2. History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    After the Louisiana Purchase, an influx of slaves and free blacks from the United States occurred. Secondly, Louisiana's slave trade was governed by the French Code Noir, and later by its Spanish equivalent the Código Negro. As written, the Code Noir gave specific rights to slaves, including the right to marry. Although it authorized and ...

  3. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Purchase was the latter, a treaty. Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution specifically grants the president the power to negotiate treaties, which is what Jefferson did. [41] Madison (the "Father of the Constitution") assured Jefferson that the Louisiana Purchase was well within even the strictest interpretation of the ...

  4. Whitney Plantation Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The grounds contain several memorial sites dedicated to the more than 100,000 men, women, and children who were enslaved in Louisiana. Original art commissioned by Cummings, such as life-size sculptures of children, were added to help tell the history of slavery. The sculptures are representative of people born into slavery before the Civil War.

  5. Louisiana in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    In the antebellum period, Louisiana was a slave state, where enslaved African Americans had comprised the majority of the population during the eighteenth-century French and Spanish dominations. By the time the United States acquired the territory (1803) and Louisiana became a state (1812), the institution of slavery was entrenched.

  6. List of plantations in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

  7. Category:History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of slavery in Louisiana" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. Neutral Ground (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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    France took formal control of Louisiana from Spain on November 30, 1803, and turned over New Orleans to the United States on December 20, 1803. The U.S. took over the rest of the territory on March 10, 1804. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and opened U.S. expansion west to the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf Coast.

  9. 1811 German Coast uprising - Wikipedia

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    More than half of those enslaved may have been born outside Louisiana, many in Africa, where various European nations established slave trading outposts and Kongo was ripped apart by civil wars. [9] After the U.S. negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, both the Marquis de Lafayette and James Monroe declined to become the Territorial Governor.