SITE 1. THE BEGINNING: THE NEW ORLEANS SLAVE TRADE

A present-day photograph shows the wide Mississippi River in the foreground, and in the background are 19th- and 20th-century buildings on Algiers Point.

Present-day Algiers Point. In the 18th century enslaved Africans were often unloaded here.

A printed shipping form from Portsmouth, Virginia, signed by various officials. The form has columns for the name, sex, age, height, and skin color of each enslaved person put on board the ship, as well as the name and address of the shipper.

Ship manifest, listing 11 enslaved children bound for the New Orleans market

Stand on the Moonwalk with your back to St. Louis Cathedral, looking out over the Mississippi River. Algiers Point, where some of the first enslaved Africans were brought to Louisiana, is across the river to your left.


While you are on the bank of the Mississippi River, listen to 1a. The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Louisiana.


On the way to Site 2: The Merieult House, listen to 1b. The Collapse and Renewal of the Atlantic Trade.

(AUDIO) DIRECTIONS TO SITE 2: THE MERIEULT HOUSE