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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 ...
The slave schedules of the 1850 U.S. census provide a window inside Garrison's jail. On enumeration day, September 2, 1850, Garrison legally owned 27 people: 14 female, 13 male; 20 racially classified as black, seven racially classified as mulatto.
The 1850 slave schedules for Saint Landry Parish listed a slave owner named John Lyons who owned eight slaves, ranging in age from 10 to 50 years old. [12] In 1853 a John Lyons Sr. of Roberts Cove, Parish of Saint Landry, died and the residue of his estate, including 53 slaves, six creole horses, and about 1400 head of cattle, was auctioned off ...
Slaves for Sale, 156 Common St., watercolor and ink by draftsman Pietro Gualdi, 1855 "A Slave Pen at New Orleans—Before the Auction, a Sketch of the Past" (Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863) View of the Port at New Orleans, circa 1855, etching from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory 1845 map of New Orleans; the trade was ubiquitous throughout the city but especially brisk in the major hotels and ...
The home was built between 1837 and 1842 by Charles Alexandre Grevemberg, who operated a successful sugar plantation based on slave labor on the surrounding 6,500 acres (2,600 ha). The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] In the slave schedules of the 1850 census, Grevemberg was recorded as owning 183 slaves. [2]
The 1850 United States census was the seventh decennial United States Census Conducted by the Census Office, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876—an increase of 35.9 percent over the 17,069,453 persons enumerated during the 1840 census. The total population included 3,204,313 enslaved people.
In the 1850 slave schedules, he is listed as holding a total of 154 men, women, and children in bondage. [7] [8] ... Downs freed a slave, Richard Barrington, ...
Circa-1850 home on former sugar plantation, scene of a Civil War skirmish in 1862. [11] 82000470 St. George Plantation House: October 5, 1982: Schriever: Terrebonne: 05000987 St. Joseph Plantation House: September 6, 2005: Vacherie: St. James