New Orleans

The Orleans Ballroom

Built in 1817, was known for his French opera and theater, but the first visitors to New Orleans came here to see the beautiful and exciting Quadroon balls’

New Orleans’ slave laws to create a social class between whites and slaves was “free people of color’” New Orleans “slave laws are based on the” Code Black “or the French Black Code and Spanish slave laws’ Under French law, the slaves that Sunday is his day off’ A slave could work in other jobs outside of their days and earn your own money’ Given that the existing laws, could buy their freedom from their master and become a “free person of color’” As a “free person of color” that can own property, make money, buy his family out of slavery, and even, ironically, to purchase and maintain slaves’ The 1830 census of New Orleans files for a total of 40,000 inhabitants, 16,000 were free persons of color and owned 700 slaves’

Dances are Quadroon lavish parties where rich white men could meet lovely Quadroon eligible women, who may agree with their lovers’ A Quadroon was a person whose origin was 25% in Africa and was forbidden by law to marry a white person’ Marriage in the years 1700 and 1800 was very practical, based on money and social status, not love’ If a wealthy man was interested in love, they often seek outside the marriage’ If a rich man and a young woman Quadroon loved each other, the man had to convince Quadroon passenger or a parent or guardian of others, had enough money to maintain its style for the rest of his life’ A contract where the man would agree to give her lover Quadroon a house, a car, furniture, silver and other materials’ His children have their name and be educated in the best schools in America and Europe’ Quadroon lover remains faithful to the rich man decided, but that could end the relationship whenever he wanted’ Despite the end of the relationship, would stick to its part of the contract’

Cathedral Garden

Behind the Cathedral of Saint Louis is a beautiful garden which, unfortunately, usually closed’ The cathedral has a long history of trying to prevent this crime is in the garden’ This is a wasteland that was a favorite place for bereaved young people, excited to meet some fellow insults, real or imagined’

The court has a marble obelisk that commemorates the killing of 30 French soldiers who lost their lives while caring for the sick in New Orleans during a yellow fever epidemic in 1853′ In the early days of New Orleans, anyone with the means to do so leave the city during the hot summers’ This was partly to do with the weather and partly to do with the ravages of yellow fever could spread without warning or reason’ These evils are killing thousands in a few years, and none in other years’ Doctors do not know what causes yellow fever and how to treat it’ Only humans are susceptible to yellow fever, all animals seem immune to the disease’ With the absence of medical problems, doctors were unable to study this disease’ In 1881, doctors have proposed a new theory on the origin of the disease, the infected mosquitoes’ This theory was tested in 1901 by volunteers with courage like John R’ Kissinger, one in the U’S’ Army, which allowed him to be a “guinea pig” in a medical experiment’ Allowed the bite of infected mosquitoes that until infected’ Who survived the fever, but is confined to a wheelchair for 12 years’ For his courage and personal sacrifice that saved many lives, Kissinger and the experience of other volunteers have been a Congress of the United States or metal and a monthly pension in 1929′

Jackson Square

Spanish theater in Jackson Square, in the beginning of his reign’ After that King Louis XV of France a colony of Louisiana to his cousin, King Charles III of Spain, the French settlers in New Orleans were very angry against the Spanish colonists were without any influence on your part’ These same ideas were expressed by the American revolutionaries in their rebellion against England but was raised for the first time in North America by French settlers in New Orleans in 1768, 8 years before the American Revolution’ The settlers ousted the governor of Spanish in a bloody rebellion and consider establishing a form of self-government in the Spanish reinforcements arrived in the person of Mr’ O’Reilly and 2600 soldiers’ O’Reilly returned to New Orleans without resistance’ O’Reilly condemned Les Six leaders of the rebellion to death’ One of them died in prison’ O’Reilly with a tent of convicts, one of the rebels because of their youth, but the rebels refused forgiveness and chose to die with their peers’ The five rebels were gunned down in Jackson Square, on October 25th 1769 by a Spanish firing squad’ The people of New Orleans French remember the names of the rebel leaders of a street in the French Quarter, “” French Street “in his honor’

Today the place is a pleasant and beautiful part of the French Quarter’ However, during the rule of French and Spanish, this square was the scene of terrible performances’ In 1754, French troops on the island of ships, the MS was ordered by an official appointed Duroux, a cruel man who sold their goods and food supplies, hunger of its people, and forced them to make charcoal and lime wood that are sold for personal gain’ Some of his men escaped to New Orleans and its treatment Kerlerec informed the Governor’ The governor on an estimate of military discipline at all costs and sides with Duroux’ Duroux soldiers is “torture’ A few days later, the soldiers mutinied and killed Duroux’ The rebels attempted to flee to Georgia, but were captured’ The three leaders of the rebellion were sentenced to death Place d’Armes’