Government, Politics & Law
1795 Point Coupee Slave Conspiracy
Enslaved, free Black, and white people planned an insurrection to end slavery in Spanish colonial Louisiana roughly 150 miles north of New Orleans.
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Government, Politics & Law
Coartación
Coartación was a legal framework during Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana that allowed enslaved people to purchase their freedom.
History
Domestic Slave Trade
The domestic slave trade, central to the economic growth of Louisiana, destroyed enslaved people’s families, wreaked havoc in their communities, and killed many, despite their attempts to resist.
Government, Politics & Law
Juan San Maló
Juan San Maló (Jean St. Malo) was the leader of a group of self-liberated formerly enslaved people who founded their own maroon resistance community in the bayous and wetlands southeast of New Orleans, in present-day St. Bernard Parish.
Business & Industry
L’Union
The South’s first Black newspaper, L’Union was an abolitionist journal that promoted full citizenship rights for men of African descent.
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