An excerpt from the Times-Picayune describes the conditions enslaved people endured in the jail, as well as how enslavers authorized the jail keeper to punish enslaved people.

ID: 6305 ~ Source: “From the Old Prison to the New Jail,” Times-Picayune, 7, 18 January 1895, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A8813.

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

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

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