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  2. New Orleans slave market - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States

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    Nashville was never a leading slave market, but as late as 1860 the city served as a sort of wikt:fulcrum for the domestic trade. [36] Louisiana became the 18th U.S. state on April 30, 1812. [37] Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th state on December 10, 1817. [38]

  4. History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Whitney Plantation Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The French Creole raised-style [2] [3] main house, built in 1790, is an important architectural example in the state.The plantation has numerous outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier or dovecote, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in North America (ca. 1790), a detached kitchen, an overseer's house, a mule barn, and two slave dwellings.

  6. Slave trade in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A typical trip from the port at Norfolk to New Orleans might be a three-week journey. [22] A statistical analysis of all known records of Baltimore–New Orleans slave shipments from 1820 to 1860 found that brigs were the type of ship used in about half of all shipments, and voyages commonly lasted between 21 and 35 days. [65]

  7. St. Augustine Church (New Orleans) - Wikipedia

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    Tomb of the Unknown Slave. The Tomb of the Unknown Slave is located in a garden plot on the property of St. Augustine Church and is a monument to the many nameless or forgotten slaves that died before emancipation. The monument consists of large chains in the shape of a cross with small chains at the base.

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