6.10 d. Code Noir
The Code Noir provided rules for how colonists treated enslaved people as well as how people of European and African ancestry interacted in French colonial Louisiana.
enslaved
enslaved Index
History
Code Noir of Louisiana
The 1724 Code Noir of Louisiana was a means to control the behaviors of Africans, Native Americans, and free people of color.
Folklife
Congo Square
Congo Square, now Armstrong Park in New Orleans’s Tremé neighborhood, served as a gathering ground for Africans in the early years of the city.
History
Delphine Lalaurie
Delphine Macarty Lalaurie, of antebellum New Orleans, was notorious for the cruel treatment the people she enslaved.
History
German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811
Enslaved people from Louisiana sugar plantations staged the largest slave revolt in United States history in 1811.
7.12 d. German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811
As many as five hundred enslaved people participated in an uprising against slaveholders in the Territory of Orleans.
History
Slavery in Spanish Colonial Louisiana
During Louisiana's Spanish colonial period, the number of enslaved Africans and the number of free people of color increased greatly.
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