As early as 1699, when Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville first began to develop the French colony of Louisiana, he petitioned the king to allow a slaving expedition to the west coast of Africa to procure captive laborers.
Thousands of New Orleans’s eighteenth-century residents are interred at the site of the St. Peter Street Cemetery in the French Quarter.
One of Louisiana's pre-contact indigenous groups
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso secretly transferred control of colonial Louisiana from Spain to France.
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso traded the colony of Louisiana from Spain back to France and played a role in the events that led to the Louisiana Purchase.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau ceded all the territory of French colonial Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, along with New Orleans, to Spain.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau shifted ownership of western Louisiana and New Orleans from France to Spain during the French and Indian War.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
The Tunica people, skilled traders and entrepreneurs who engaged with French colonists in the eighteenth century, merged with several other historical Louisiana tribes in the twentieth century.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is one of only four American Indian groups in Louisiana recognized by the federal government.
The old Ursuline Convent remains as the only French colonial structure in the French Quarter known to have survived the fires of 1788 and 1794 and one of the oldest buildings in the Mississippi Valley.
Voudou, a synthesis of African religious and magical beliefs with Roman Catholicism, emerged in New Orleans in the 1700s and survives in active congregations today.
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