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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 ...
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 Littles were brothers; the Poindexters were most likely brothers but possibly cousins. At the time of the 1860 census, Thomas B. Poindexter had the highest declared net worth of any person who listed their occupation as a slave trader in New Orleans. [1] In 1861 they had a slave depot located at 48 Baronne in New Orleans. [2] [3]
3.1.4 The slave trade. 3.2 The Civil War. 3.3 Late 19th century: ... New Orleans was the site of the development and construction of Higgins boats under the direction ...
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]
The NOAAM property encompasses seven historical structures located on the site of a former plantation.The main large building, built of brick in 1828–1829, is the Meilleur-Goldthwaite House, [2] the finest remaining Creole "maison de maître" or master's house in the city. [3]
Kendig most likely began in the New Orleans slave-trading business in or before 1839. [5] Between 1852 and 1860 notarial records show that he sold at least 758 people (or about 95 people a year). [3] [5] In 1845, "Kendig's auction store" in New Orleans was the site of an attempted murder. [6]
In 1860 John J. Poindexter appeared in the federal census of New Orleans with occupation "slave depot," and personal property worth $40,000. His nearest neighbors were the households of his business partner Montgomery Lyttle, and another slave trader, R.H. Elam. [17] He was listed on the 1860 slave schedules as personally owning three people. [18]