History
Delphine Lalaurie
Delphine Macarty Lalaurie, of antebellum New Orleans, was notorious for the cruel treatment the people she enslaved.
Carolyn Morrow Long
History
Eulalie Mandeville
Eulalie Mandeville was an entrepreneur of extraordinary business acumen who became one of New Orleans' wealthiest free women of color.
History
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau was a free woman of color born in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Laveau assumed the leadership role of a multiracial religious community for which she gave consultations and held ceremonies. During her time, she was known as "The Priestess of the Voudous"; among many other colorful titles.
History
Mistress of the Haunted House
Delphine Lalaurie was run out of New Orleans in 1834 when it was discovered she was torturing her slaves.
Folklife
The Cracker Jack: A Hoodoo Drugstore in the "Cradle of Jazz"
The Cracker Jack was apparently operating as a hoodoo drugstore by the 1920s, supplying customers all over the eastern United States
Folklife
Voudou
Voudou, a synthesis of African religious and magical beliefs with Roman Catholicism, emerged in New Orleans in the 1700s and survives in active congregations today.
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