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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 ...
Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8] Between 1723 and 1769, most African slaves imported to Louisiana were from modern-day Senegal, Mali, Congo, and Benin and many thousands being imported to Louisiana from there.
Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Research by Henry Louis Gates and other sources regards their population to be around 1-2%. [2] [3] [4] They descended from: enslaved Africans by the Spanish, as well as those who were enslaved from the West Indies and identify as Creole peoples, and the Garifuna who descend from exiled zambo Maroons from Saint ...
He became "one of the wealthiest planters" in Louisiana, and the owner of hundreds of slaves. [4] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Barrow financed the construction of submarines for the Confederate States Navy. [5] He lost much of his wealth as a result of the war, however much was regained back to his family and descendants. [2]
Slavery in Louisiana (3 P) P. People enslaved in Louisiana (16 P) Plantations in Louisiana (3 C, 35 P) Pages in category "History of slavery in Louisiana"
Louisiana slave society generated its own Afro-Creole culture that affected religious beliefs and Louisiana Creole. [39] [40] The slaves brought with them their cultural practices, languages, and religious beliefs rooted in spirit and ancestor worship, as well as Catholic Christianity—all of which were key elements of Louisiana Voodoo. [41]
In 1763 settlements from New Orleans to Pointe Coupee (north of Baton Rouge) included 3,654 free persons and 4,598 slaves. By the 1800 census, which included West Florida, there were 19,852 free persons and 24,264 slaves in Lower Louisiana.
The Pointe Coupée Mina community arose following their enslavement and importation into Louisiana following 1782. [2] Among enslaved Africans whose ethnicity was recorded in official documents between 1719 and 1820, Mina were the third-largest enslaved ethnic group in Louisiana. [3] Many Mina took part in the Pointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of ...