Petition of the Free Colored Population of Louisiana

ID: 5617 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. ~ Date: January 5, 1864.

This file appears in: Tombs of Jean Baptiste Roudanez and his mother Aimée Potens

This file appears in: Tombs of Jean Baptiste Roudanez and his mother Aimée Potens

Tombs of Jean Baptiste Roudanez and his mother Aimée Potens

By Mark Charles Roudané

Jean Baptiste Roudanez, publisher of L’Union, the South’s first black newspaper, and the New Orleans Tribune, America’s first black daily newspaper, is entombed alongside his mother Aimée Potens, a…