Henriette Delille was a free Afro-Creole woman who founded sodalities, or religious sororities, for women of African descent that dedicated themselves to the care of the poor, the enslaved, and free people of color.
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.
Marie Tranchepain was the first Mother Superior of New Orleans’s Ursulines and an early female diarist.
The Mississippian culture spanned from roughly 1050 to 1700 CE
Established in 1789, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the oldest cemetery in the city of New Orleans.
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