Home at 727-729 Burgundy Street.

ID: 6336 ~ Creator: Photograph by Jessica Dauterive ~ Date: November 2, 2022

This file appears in: The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again

Taken in 2022, this is the former home of the Beaurepaire family.

This file appears in: The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again

The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again

The house today marked 727-729 Burgundy Street, relatively unchanged since the early 1800s, has a history that reflects the tricky navigation of enslavement and freedom by a family called the Beaurepaires. On August 25, 1828, Louis Beaurepaire, a…