DEPARTURE (Day 7 - part 1)

The shuttle to take us to the airport was scheduled to pick us up just before 1 pm. So after our last hotel restaurant breakfast, we spent the morning wandering town again. We saw some familiar places but also discovered new areas. It was extremely hot and humid and we were soaked with sweat the entire time. At one point, we passed a man who was completely naked. He simply said hello as he walked by us. He did not seem drunk at all. Apparently this is just what he did.

Bourbon Street

Rue D'Orleans

Stuck in traffic along with everyone else

The French Market

Esplanade Street

In 1808, the US Congress abolished the international slave trade. This caused a drastic increase in the domestic trade as slaves were shuffled about within the boundaries of the US. During the 57 years that followed, an estimated 2 million people were separated from their families and forcibly moved. The largest numbers were brought from the Upper South to the Lower South by means of overland and water routes.... essentially sold down the river. New Orleans was the center of this trade. Enslaved people were sold from pens, public squares, government buildings, churches, taverns, private residences, auction houses and even from the ballrooms of luxury hotels.

Solomon Northrup was a free black man from New York who was sold into slavery in 1841. He was passed through Theophilus Freeman's notorious slave pen (located along this street but demolished after the Civil War).

Discovering new areas

On Governor Nicholls' Street, formally known as Hospital Street

Sisters of the Holy Family church on St. Claude

Now that's bright!

Ursulines Ave

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