3d. HEWLETT'S EXCHANGE

A handbill advertises an estate sale of 24 people, ranging in age from 27 years old to infant, who had been enslaved on a sugar plantation in Iberville Parish. Their occupations include cooper, brick maker, coachman, and field hand.
1838 ad for slave auction at Hewlett’s Exchange

Walk and listen to Track 3d - Hewlett's Exchange (above).


Next, walk and listen to Track 4. St. Louis Hotel



Directions to Site 4 - St. Louis Hotel

Former site of the St. Louis Hotel (now the Omni Royal Orleans). Walk down Chartres Street towards Canal Street. When you get to St. Louis Street, stop at the corner and stand in front of Napoleon House restaurant, looking back down Chartres Street toward St. Louis Cathedral.