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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…

The Beach Insitute was built in 1867, by the Freedmen's Bureau as a school for newly freed slaves. It today serves as an African American cultural center, which was founded by Westley Wallace Law. W.W. Law's likeness can be seen on the banner…

The Beauregard-Keyes House was built in 1826, for the New Orleans slave auctioneer, Joseph LeCarpentier, who lived here until 1835. He was responsible for the infamous Haydel slave auction, on March 24, 1840, in which 62 slaves from Habitation…

These two houses are the only two remaining Borough Houses, named after the former Ansonborough neighborhood, which was in a predominantly African American part of Charleston. The rest of the houses were torn down, and all were vacated after it was…

This broadside advertised a slave sale that took place at Ryan's Mart, of 25 Sea Island cotton and rice Negroes or slaves.

Cheval-de-frise was increasingly used after Denmark Vesey's 1822 planned slave uprising in order to prevent slaves from escaping their owner's land. This example is in front of one of the mansions on Meeting Street, which is arguably the most…

This is another example of the cheval-de-frise in the French Quarter.

This memorial sits along High Battery on the southern end of Charleston's peninsual. It was appropriated shortly after the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME by graffiti artists who used the memorial as a canvas for Black Lives Matter messages. The…

The Congolese Cosmogram is an African prayer symbol, which also represents birth, life, death, and rebirth. The church was a haven for runaway slaves, and some say that the holes were actually "air holes" for slaves who would hide under the basement…

These Creole Cottages in the French Quarter are fine examples of some of the vernacular architecture found here.