“To Admit All Cattle without Distinction”Reconstructing Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City Slaughterhouse

This article argues that voices of doom, predicting the demise of Crescent City, have been drowned out by an optimistic and energetic movement both within and outside New Orleans to bring everyone home, and to revive and renew the city, especially through a showcasing of its diverse cultures. New Orleans's history is one of destruction and rebuilding, climatic disaster and haphazard reconstruction. The dramatic disappearance of the wetlands and urban hinterland, caused by climate change and ecological damage brought about by construction and oil companies, makes New Orleans's physical and demographic future questionable and controversial. But there is strong commitment by its citizens and internationally celebrated musicians to keep the city alive, and the global reputation and power of its music have attracted powerful advocates and cheerleaders. Music, film, television programmes, the visual arts, literature and many forms of published testimony and oral history have reminded the world of this city's unique multicultural postcolonial history, drawing back tourists and visitors to celebrate one of America's most extraordinary melting pots.

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Conclusion: The Fogs of New Orleans and the Future of the Crescent City

Down and Out in New Orleans ◽

10.7312/mari17852-013 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 222-230

Keyword(s):

New Orleans ◽

Crescent City ◽

The Future

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People of Culture and Refinement

Liberty Brought Us Here ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813179339.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 14-18

Author(s):

Susan E. Lindsey

Keyword(s):

New Orleans ◽

Yellow Fever ◽

Slave Labor ◽

Crescent City ◽

Dark Hair ◽

Auction Houses ◽

The Many ◽

The City

Ben Major, who owned and then freed Tolbert, Austin, and their families, is a good-looking man with wavy dark hair, thick brows, and expressive eyes. In his late teens, he moves to New Orleans, where he and his brother work in a mercantile business. Slaves are one of the many commodities flowing into and out of the Crescent City. Ben is surrounded by slave markets and auction houses, and his time in the city influences his views on “the peculiar institution.” In 1819, following his brother’s death from yellow fever, Ben returns to Kentucky and marries Lucy Davenport. The couple settles in Christian County, Kentucky, where nearly half the population is enslaved. Supported by slave labor, the couple builds a home and farm, and starts a family.

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Organized Action Colorized White Radio in the Crescent City

Race and Radio ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496822062.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 3-20

Author(s):

Bala J. Baptiste

Keyword(s):

African Americans ◽

Public Sphere ◽

New Orleans ◽

Community Building ◽

Federal Communications Commission ◽

Crescent City ◽

Urban League ◽

Black Voices ◽

Organized Action ◽

Local Levels

Black voices on radio provided community building opportunities for African Americans. As such, blacks created an alternative public sphere which allowed them to engage in discourse that unifies people into a collective. The Urban League on the national and local levels aided community building by organizing its members to approach radio station managers beginning in 1941. The organization's directives led to the establishment of the “Negro Forum,” an Afrocentric talk show that integrated the airways in New Orleans in 1946. WNOE station owner James Noe provided O. C. W. Taylor 15 minutes of free airtime on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Noe's decision to accept the “Religious Forum” was also influenced by his interest in gaining Federal Communications Commission approval to change his position on the dial and increase the station's broadcast power from 250 watts to 50,000 watts.

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