Disasters
2016 Floods
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
St. John the Baptist
St. John the Baptist Index
Folklife
Creole Folktales
Many Louisiana Creole folktales represent a convergence of African and European culture.
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.
Architecture
San Francisco Plantation
The San Francisco Plantation name is derived from the term "sans fruscins" meaning "without a cent" or "having lost everything," possibly alluding to the high cost of the house.
Literature
Sidonie de la Houssaye
Sidonie de la Houssaye wrote about nineteenth-century Creole society.
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