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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. New Orleans slave market - Wikipedia

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   New Orleans, Louisiana was a major, if not the major, slave market of the lower Mississippi River valley of the United States from approximately 1830 until the American Civil War. Slaves from the upper south were trafficked by land and by sea to New Orleans where they were sold at a markup to the cotton and sugar plantation barons of the region.

5. John McDonogh - Wikipedia

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   John McDonogh (December 29, 1779 – October 26, 1850) was an American entrepreneur whose adult life was spent in south Louisiana and later in Baltimore. He made a fortune in real estate and shipping, and as a slave owner, he supported the American Colonization Society, which organized transportation for freed people of color to Liberia.

6. Meredith Calhoun - Wikipedia

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   Calhoun played a major role in the inter-regional slave trade of the American South, acting as a broker for the purchase and sale of thousands of enslaved persons. [ 1 ] There have been reports dating to the 19th century that author Harriet Beecher Stowe based the character of Simon Legree in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) on Calhoun.

7. 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.

8. Category:History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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9. Category:Slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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