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Slave schedule for Tensas Parish, Louisiana estates including T. B. Poindexter, 1860 In 1860, T. B. Poindexter was listed in the New Orleans census as a resident of the 11th ward, having the occupation of slave trader, owning real estate valued at US$200,000 (equivalent to $6,782,222 in 2023) and personal property worth US$150,000 (equivalent ...
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 ...
In 1847 New Orleans papers reported that Calhoun's slaves in Rapides Parish had planted 1,000 acres of sugarcane that year and that Calhoun owned "one of the largest sugar houses in the state." [ 8 ] In 1851, a cholera outbreak killed 10 percent of the 700 people enslaved by Calhoun on four plantations in the Red River district of Louisiana. [ 9 ]
John McGavock (1815–1893), Louisiana plantation owner and private secretary to Attorney General Felix Grundy. Mariah Reddick was enslaved by McGavock and continued to work for his family after the Civil War. [210] James McGill (1744–1813), Scottish businessman and founder of Montreal's McGill University, was a slave owner. [211]
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]
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
The 1850 slave schedules for Saint Landry Parish listed a slave owner named John Lyons who owned eight slaves, ranging in age from 10 to 50 years old. [12] In 1853 a John Lyons Sr. of Roberts Cove, Parish of Saint Landry, died and the residue of his estate, including 53 slaves, six creole horses, and about 1400 head of cattle, was auctioned off ...
Runaway slave ad in Louisiana, 1851. The first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 on the Aurore slave ship from Whydah, only a year after the founding of New Orleans. [7] Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8]