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This painting by Clementine Hunter was done in 1950. Hunter was a self-taught African American folk artist who lived and worked on the Melrose Plantation, a mecca for the arts. Her work depicts slave life in the early 20th century.

The Lee monument was dedicated in 1884, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Legend has it that Lee faces north in order to always be facing his military adversaries.

This graffiti reads "Black Lives Matter!!!"

This graffiti referencing the Ku Klux Klan is on the base of the Robert E. Lee Monument in Lee Circle. The monumuent has recently come under scrutiny in the city as it stands as a memorial to this Confederate General and defender of slavery, with…

St. Augustine Catholic Church, in the Treme neightborhood, was established in 1841, as a church for free black citizens in New Orleans, but welcomed both free and slave worshipers. A few weeks before the church's dedication in 1842, blacks began…

Now considered uptown, or the Garden District, the neighborhood that Lafayette No. 1 sits in was once all plantation. Notably, the defendant in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, Judge Ferguson, was buried here. He upheld the state law that segregation,…

This placard recognizes the cemetery was part of the Livaudais Plantation, but does not acknowledge the slave graves within, despite mentioning "Here are buried many persons of German and Irish origin who lived in the city of Lafayette."

The site where Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 now stands was once the site of the Livaudais Plantation, which was divided into squares in 1832. Before the land became a city cemetery, these two graves marked the final resting places of slaves who worked on…

The St. Charles Hotel used to sit on this site at St. Charles Avenue and bounded by Gravier, Common, and Carondelet Streets. Today it is a Hilton Hotel which neither has any relation to the original hotel at this site, nor any marker indicating the…

While not original to the Whitney Plantation, this slave jail from 1868 is similar to those used to restrain slaves. Its location at the Whitney is purposeful--it was placed so that one could catch a glimpse of the main house through the jail.