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September 29/Talking Points

p. 90 What are your thoughts about the New Orleans Guide created by a New York journalist in 1853. Does it make you think of some particular German Laws from the 1900s?

p. 91/92. What is the New Orleans, January 8th celebration about?

p. 93. Who were the people Andrew Jackson called “noble-hearted, [and] generous”?

p. 94. What can we say about the 1/8 parade and its annual procession, in 1860, as opposed to 1851?

p. 95. Who were the gens de couleur libre?

Free people of color - Wikipedia

p. 96. Why was military service attractive to all?

p. 96/7. What was the Spanish Law coartacion about?

p. 98. What does it mean that the Plessy children were quarteron libre?

p.98/9. What were the rights of free people of color in 1860 New Orleans?

p. 100 What was remarkable about “Old Jordan,” and why this name (no last name)?

Jordan B. Noble (U.S. National Park Service)

p. 101. What did the Louisiana Supreme Court decide in 1856?

p. 101/02. What did the law about “voluntary” slavery offer?