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  2. Creole Queen - Wikipedia

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    The Creole Queen is a 1,000-passenger paddlewheel riverboat operating out of the Port of New Orleans.She is operated by New Orleans Paddlewheels, Inc. She was built by Halter Marine at Moss Point, Mississippi along the lines of a turn-of-the-century sternwheeler and was christened into service in September 1983.

  3. Haunting of the Octoroon Mistress - Wikipedia

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    The term Octoroon is used for people in New Orleans in the nineteenth century that were 1/8 Black and 7/8 white. These octoroons were known as Creoles of color. Relationships between octoroons and elite Creoles of New Orleans were prohibited, but young men commonly had strong attractions to octoroon women because of their beauty. Because of ...

  4. Marie Laveau - Wikipedia

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    Historical records state that Marie Catherine Laveau was born a free woman of color in New Orleans 's French Quarter, Louisiana, on Thursday, September 10, 1801.At the time of her birth, Louisiana was still administered by Spanish colonial officials, although by treaty the territory had been restored to the French First Republic a year prior. [1]

  5. Leah Chase - Wikipedia

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    Leyah (Leah) Chase [1] (née Lange; January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana.An author and television personality, she was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating both African-American art and Creole cooking.

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  7. Portrait of a Creole Woman with Madras Tignon - Wikipedia

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    [3] [6] For example, François Fleischbein's Portrait of a Free Woman of Color (c. 1837) and Adolph Rinck's Free Woman of Color, New Orleans (1844) have both been identified as portraits of Marie Laveau at different points in time. [15] [16] [17] According to her daughter, however, Laveau's image was never recorded during her lifetime.

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