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African Americans provided the workforce and lived in the quarters houses at Evergreen Plantation for nearly 200 years, first as slaves and later as freedmen.
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NAME: Most enslaved individuals did not have surnames. Refer to the list of names of those enslaved at Evergreen by clicking on the link below. NAMES OF THE ENSLAVED OCCUPATION: You can search for all domestics (house slaves), field hands, or more specialized jobs, such as engineer, cooper, carpenter, etc. YEAR OF BIRTH: In the event that a birthda...
Archdiocese of New Orleans, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Baptismal records Archdiocese of New Orleans, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Funeral records Sale records from New Orleans Notarial Archives From St. John the Baptist Parish Probate Records, formerly housed in the parish Clerk of Court office, now being digitized: 1791 Successio...
May 7, 2020 · The first slave ships from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719, only a year after the founding of New Orleans. Twenty-three ships brought slaves to Louisiana in the French period alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730.
In 1719, one year after the founding of New Orleans, the first ship containing 450 African captives made landfall in Louisiana amidst the exponential increase in chattel slavery in the Americas. By 1729, ten years later, Louisiana had a larger enslaved population than its colonizing population.
Jul 26, 2019 · By the 1940s, the plantation was reacquired and fully restored. The formerly enslaved Black Americans, though legally freed, continued to live and work at the plantation until 1947.
At Evergreen, the tour highlights 250 years of family ownership, the architectural significance of the buildings, and its reliance on agriculture. Emphasis is placed on the plantation’s dependence on slave labor and later the labor of freed African-Americans that was necessary to operate such an enterprise.
Feb 10, 2021 · Constructed in 1790, Evergreen remains one of the most intact plantation sites in the South. The grounds include 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), including 22...
