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Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
Bob Freeman (fl. 1840s–1850s) was a mixed-race man who worked as the jailor of Theophilus Freeman's slave pen in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the antebellum United States. He is described in the slave narratives of both John Brown and Solomon Northrup. Brown spent a fair amount of time accompanying Freeman on errands, such as taking enslaved ...
Order for Payment dated 5 March 1818 from the City Mayor of New Orleans to reimburse Ms. Rosette Montreuil, a free colored person, for the labor of her Mulatto slave, Michel. African American slave owners within the history of the United States existed in some cities and others as plantation owners in the country.
Relatives. Horace Lawson Hunley (brother-in-law) Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798 – 1875) was one of the owners of the most land and slaves in the southern United States before the American Civil War. He owned sixteen plantations, mostly in Louisiana, and had large landholdings in Texas. He also invested money in projects in which he saw potential.
Elihu Creswell (c. 1811 – June 19, 1851) was an "extensive negro trader" of antebellum Louisiana, United States.Raised in an elite family in the South Carolina Upcountry, Creswell eventually moved to New Orleans, where he specialized in "acclimated" slaves, meaning people who had spent most of their lives enslaved in the Mississippi River basin so they were more likely to have acquired ...
Maunsel White (c. 1783 – December 17, 1863) was an Irish born American Episcopalian politician, merchant, and entrepreneur. He is remembered for promoting the use of peppers and peppery sauces – a brand of which his descendants still manufacture today. Although he is usually associated with New Orleans, he also resided in Plaquemines Parish ...
John Lyons (b. c. 1822 – September 23, 1864) was a carpenter, bridge builder, cotton-plantation owner, and steamship captain of Louisiana, United States. [1] Lyons is best known today as the enslaver of Peter of the scourged back, who escaped to Union lines in 1863, [2] and whose whip-scarred body ultimately became a representative of the ...
B. Lapice & Bros. sugar plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, from Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River (1858) P. M. Lapice's property in Concordia Parish, Louisiana is pictured on this 1862 map of the Natchez, Mississippi area Listing of property and 493 people owned by P. M. Lapice, to be sold by U.S. Marshals (New Orleans Crescent, March 2, 1850)