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The local branch had approached the management of Tastykake, about employing black workers in the lucrative position of "driver-salesman." Driver-salesmen both drove the company's' delivery trucks and sold the company's goods to grocery stores and other retail outlets and thus were able to earn lucrative commissions on top of their salaries. [7]
The U.S. gained rights to use the New Orleans port in 1795. [citation needed] Louisiana (New Spain) was transferred by Spain to France in 1800, but it remained under Spanish administration until a few months before the Louisiana Purchase. The huge swath of territory purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803 was sparsely populated.
Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1572330245. Jackson, Joy J. (1969). New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress, 1880–1896. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Leavitt, Mel (1982). A Short History of New ...
More than in other areas of the South, most of the free people of color were of mixed race. Many gens de couleur libre in New Orleans were middle class and educated; many were also property owners. In contrast, according to the 1860 census, 331,726 people were enslaved, nearly 47% of the state's total population of 708,002. [37]
Cajun: a style of cooking named after French settlers who made their way to Louisiana in the 1700s.Cajun food often uses ingredients like peppers, onions, celery, and herbs, in addition to a lot ...
President William Howard Taft (1909) at the Godchaux–Reserve Plantation The Godchaux Sugar Refinery (1938). Godchaux–Reserve Plantation, also known as Godchaux–Boudousquie Plantation, and the Reserve Plantation, is a former plantation, former site of a sugar refinery, and once included a historic house built in 1764, located in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said police were scouring the French Quarter for additional improvised explosive devices or other threats but that so far, they had found none ...
Former basketball teams were the New Orleans Buccaneers (c. 1967–1970), and the New Orleans Jazz (1974–1980) which became the Utah Jazz. New Orleans is also home to Southern Yacht Club, located at West End on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Established in 1849, it is the second oldest yacht club in the United States. The building was ...