History
Free People of Color
Free people of color constituted a diverse segment of Louisiana’s population and included people that were born free or enslaved, were of African or mixed racial ancestry, and were French- or English-speaking
Elizabeth Clark Neidenbach
Freedom on the Move in Louisiana
Archived notices of people escpaing slavery plot a geography of resistance
History
John McDonogh
Businessman and real estate investor whose extensive involvement with slavery complicates his legacy as a benefactor of public education.
Lessons Even in Silence
K. Stephen Prince’s The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900
History
Marie Couvent
Marie Couvent, also known as Marie Justine Cirnaire, was a wealthy free woman of color in New Orleans who donated property for use as a free school.
Refugee Revolution
Covering the crisis that more than doubled New Orleans’s population
Rethinking Reconstruction
A new history of Reconstruction in Louisiana and South Carolina reveals an alternative path not taken for US race relations
Government, Politics & Law
The Treaty of Fontainebleau
The Treaty of Fontainebleau ceded all the territory of French colonial Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, along with New Orleans, to Spain.
Government, Politics & Law
Third Treaty of San Ildefonso
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso secretly transferred control of colonial Louisiana from Spain to France.
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