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“On to Orleans" : The Negro Insurrection (1888), LJ Bridgman

Whole Bone Button

Creole in a Red Turban, Jacques Guillame (1840)

Decree of Pierre Clément Laussat upholding the Code Noir in the Louisiana Territory, 1803.

Enslaved people picking cotton in 1854

Fan boning

Formerly enslaved woman wearing a tignon and a handkerchief around her neck, 1878

Former slaves of Jefferson Davis in a Baton Rouge contraband camp, 1863

L’industrie du tabac, Labat, Nouveaux Vogages aux Îles d’Amerique. 1724

Metal buttons, likely used on heavier outerwear made of wool or coarse cotton
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