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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 Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1]
By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each. By the time of Missouri Compromise of 1820, the dividing line between the slave and free states was called the Mason-Dixon line (between Maryland and Pennsylvania), with its westward extension being the Ohio River.
In the antebellum period, Louisiana was a slave state, where enslaved African Americans had comprised the majority of the population during the eighteenth-century French and Spanish dominations. By the time the United States acquired the territory (1803) and Louisiana became a state (1812), the institution of slavery was entrenched.
He donated five lots to St. Matthews Episcopal Church on Barrow Street in Houma, Louisiana, valued at $1000 (~$25,795 in 2023) at that time on June 7, 1857. On September 1, 1857, he donated four lots on the corner of School Street and Goode Street in Houma worth $8000 (~$206,363 in 2023) to the Church of Presbyterian Congregation.
In March 1853, as part of his research into American slavery, Frederick Law Olmstead visited Calhoun's plantation complex in Rapides Parish, Louisiana "where he spent two to three days." [ 15 ] Olmsted's article about the anonymized Calhoun plantation was published in the New-York Daily Times on November 21, 1853. [ 16 ]
Slavery in Louisiana (3 P) P. People enslaved in Louisiana (16 P) ... William Prince Ford; Theophilus Freeman; G. 1811 German Coast uprising; H. John Hagan (slave trader)
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the Unorganized Territory (dark green) and permitted it in Missouri (yellow). The Platte Purchase region (highlighted in red). The Platte Purchase was a land acquisition in 1836 by the United States government from American Indian tribes of the region.