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colonial architecture of Bourbon Street and the French Quarter, ornate cemeteries and Mardi Gras, po'boys and blues, jambalaya and jazz.
In April this year, the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting brought some of the Antiquity editorial team to the Deep South offering the opportunity to compare the stories of New Orleans and its river with the reality
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The German Coast uprising, the largest slave revolt in the American South,
New Orleans became the largest slave market in North America, with many tens of thousands of enslaved people bought and sold in its trading houses.
Whitney Plantation was founded in 1752 by one of the many German immigrants who settled along this stretch of the river; in fact, so many settlers from that part of Europe arrived in the eighteenth century that the area became known as the German Coast.