An image of McDonogh’s plantation includes enslaved people and what appears to be an overseer.

ID: 6304 ~ Source: Artist not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_McDonogh_Home_1850.jpg#filehistory.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 4: Georges, Jasper, and Celestin

Georges might have lived here before he escaped.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 4: Georges, Jasper, and Celestin

Streets on the Table Episode 4: Georges, Jasper, and Celestin

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…