Edgard in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)
Allées Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 12, 2018
1. Allees Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Marker
This monument records the names of 107,000 people held in bondage in Louisiana from 1719-1820. The records were gathered from the database Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, created by noted historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. We have named this monument in her honor for her enormous contribution to the history of slavery in the Americas.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall graduated from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1949 and completed her graduate work at Mexico City College and the University of Michigan. She married Harry Haywood, a prominent political activist and scholar, in 1956. Hall taught history for many years, retiring from Rutgers University in 1996. Her academic career includes such seminal works as Africans in Colonial Louisiana and Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas. Hall has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including a Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, and the John Hope Franklin Prize. Her database Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820, which she began creating in 1984, is one of the very first original digital humanities projects.
Plantation
- The Story of Slavery –
Erected by Whitney Plantation
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Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Women.
Location. 30° 2.332′ N, 90° 39.085′ W. Marker is in Edgard, Louisiana, in St. John the Baptist Parish. Marker can be reached from State Highway 18, 1½ miles east of State Highway 3213. Marker and associated monument are located within the Whitney Plantation grounds at this address. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5099 Louisiana Highway 18, Edgard LA 70049, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. The Slave Quarters (within shouting distance of this marker); Golden Grove Plantation (approx. 1.6 miles away); Colonial Sugars Refinery (approx. 1.8 miles away); Gramercy (approx. 2.2 miles away); Saint Hubert Parish (approx. 2.3 miles away); Lutcher (approx. 2.6 miles away); Lutcher United Methodist Church (approx. 2.9 miles away); Bald Cypress (approx. 3.1 miles away).
More about this marker. Marker is a metal plaque mounted at eye-level on the wrought iron fence that surrounds the associated monument.
Also see . . .
1. Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas.
Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 12, 2018
2. Allees Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Marker (wide view; marker visible at far left, near gate)
2. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall was born Gwendolyn Charmaine Midlo in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1929, in a family of Russian- and Polish-Jewish ancestry. She became active in the civil rights movement at an early age. Between 1947 and 1949 she attended Newcombe College of Tulane University where she completed majors in European and American History. Hall's deep commitment to the civil rights movement was visible when she was arrested in 1949 for violating segregation laws. Her family sent her to France from 1949 to 1953 where she learned French and studied classical piano. From 1953 to 1964, Hall worked closely with Harry Haywood (his legal name was Haywood Hall), an African-American leader and member of the American Communist Party, who wrote on topics related to Marxism, particularly as it related to the civil rights movement and the condition of African-Americans in the United States. (Submitted on May 12, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 12, 2018
3. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Monument
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 12, 2018
4. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Monument
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 12, 2018
5. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Monument
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 12, 2018
6. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Monument
Credits. This page was last revised on October 29, 2020. It was originally submitted on May 12, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 366 times since then and 29 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on May 12, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
