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New Orleans Slave Trade
By Cosmos Mariner, May 11, 2018
New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade Marker (back side)
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| On Esplanade Avenue at Chartres Street, in the median on Esplanade Avenue. |
| | (front side)
In 1808, the US Congress abolished the international slave trade, contributing to a significant increase in the domestic slave trade, or the trafficking of human beings within the boundaries of the United States. During the . . . — — Map (db m117438) HM |
| Near St. Peter Street east of Decatur Street, on the left when traveling east. |
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The trade of human beings from Africa to Louisiana began in 1718 with the first slave ships, the Aurore and the Duc du Maine, arriving in 1719. Those ships carried 451 enslaved Africans to the Louisiana colony. Their voyage marked the beginning . . . — — Map (db m117276) HM |
| On Esplanade Avenue near Chartres Street, in the median. |
| | Located in the Faubourg Marigny, from the corner of Esplanade Ave. and Chartres St., is the former site of Theophilus Freeman's notorious slave pen (demolished after the Civil War) where Solomon Northup, a free man of color from New York, was sold . . . — — Map (db m117277) HM |
Jun. 15, 2024