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This display opened an exhibit on slavery in New Orleans. Seen is an auction block, on which slaves would have stood during slaves auctions, such as that which is depicted in the central illustration. That illustration, by William Henry Brooke,…

The bamboula was the drum used by slaves during their weekly Sunday evening gatherings in Congo Square where they would dance and make music.

This monument was originally erected in 1891, as a "memorial to white supremacy," to honor those whites who died in 1874, during the attack of the Crescent City White Leage (all whites) on the New Orleans Metropolitan Police (blacks and whites). As a…

This sign welcomed people to the Historic Africatown Vistor's Center, which was across the street from the Africatown Graveyard.

A mobile home used to sit here, which housed the Historic Africatown Visitor's Center. All that stands here today is the remains of a dilapadated welcome sign, a parking lot, an ADA ramp, and what appears to be a memorial with gold busts to several…

The Old Plateau Cemetery, or Africatown Graveyard, is the burial ground of slaves, free blacks, and a Buffalo Soldier. Africatown was founded by freed slaves who were among those who arrived in American on the Clotilda, the last documented slave ship…

The Second African Baptist Church was founded in 1802, by Andrew Bryan, Georgia's first African American religious leader and former slave. It was on the steps here where Gen. Sherman read the Emancipation Proclamation, and promised the newly freed…

This information accompanies the floor plan on the second floor of the slave quarters, and gives some indication as to what life may have been like for the slaves who lived here.

This floor plan is on display on the second floor of the slave quarters--this is not part of the guided tour, although guests are invited to take a look before or after.

Although the focus of the Owens-Thomas House tour is the main house and its architecture, at least there is some verbal mention of the slaves who worked here.