The "Old Parish Prison"

ID: 5840 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1982.170. ~ Date: 1895

This file appears in: The Church: Marie Laveau at St. Louis Cathedral

Marie Laveau visited ministered to prisoners at the Old Parish Prison.

This file appears in: The Church: Marie Laveau at St. Louis Cathedral

The Church: Marie Laveau at St. Louis Cathedral

By August Darbonne & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

Marie Laveau was born September 10, 1801, to Marguerite Darcantel and Charles Laveaux, both free people of color. New Orleans had a sizable population of free people of color, due in part to Spanish colonial law that allowed enslaved people to save…