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Marie Baron and Les Forcats

By Paper Monuments, Jeffrey Goodman, artist & Shannon Lee Dawdy, narrative
Marie Baron was among thousands of forçats, or French criminals sent to Louisiana in the early 1700s as forced laborers. Most were convicted for life terms, but if they survived the first few years (the majority did not), they could acquire a de…

St. Louis La Nuit

By Paper Monuments, Jeffrey Goodman, Artist & Sylvia Frey, Writer
The extraordinary life-history of Saint Louis la Nuit reads like a first draft of early New Orleans history. Born in Africa in 1728, he had a name, a family and an ethnic identity which defined his place in the world. Torn from his identity moorings…
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