History of New Orleans

This is a clip from a virtual French Quarter tour I did during quarantine, so the focus is on the French Quarter. I am uploading it to RUclips as an assignment for a student, but anyone is welcome to watch for a brief history lesson.

[@davelc3]

Born and raised in Louisiana, lived in NOLA for years. Hands down the best quick history of Louisiana/New Orleans on RUclips.

[@luckybeantours6787]

Wow! Praise from locals is like extra points! Thank you so much.
Libby

[@chazmansmom]

I'm a transplant. Been living here near Baton Rouge for 17 years and whenever family or friends come visit I have to play tour guide! Im going to fire myself and share this video with them all! Love the extra little details and the pace of this! Thank you so much!!😁

[@luckybeantours6787]

Thank you! Bring them on a tour with me next time!

[@mayakempen8891]

Super interesting video and very informative, but I wish you spoke a lot more about black history as well as history of jazz because I think it’s vital to understanding the history of New Orleans or any Southern city. Black people in the South after slavery ended weren’t just poor like everyone else because of the war but because they had not been paid for all the grueling labor they did while being in the U.S. And crop production declined so much not just because of city-wide poverty from the war, but because of black freedom and the fact that they were no longer forced to be cultivating crops that white people were profiting off of. Black people ended up being sifted into working class jobs throughout the South because there weren’t ANY sort of reparations made that tried to make up for their enslavement and they didn’t have any generational wealth to allow them the opportunity to seek out education or well-paying jobs, and that in combination with white racism and the creation of Jim Crow made it so that black people in the South still had an inferior economic position to whites. They weren’t free and didn’t have opportunity for upward economic growth or mobility within the American capitalist system. This position has resulted in long-lasting generational poverty that has largely continued over the past 150ish years and black people are in general much less wealthy than whites still today due to this. Also in terms of “freedom” from slavery like you’re talking about, it’s important to explain the complexity that you briefly mention-that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 didn’t free enslaved people from slavery until around 1865 because news travelled very slowly throughout the country and white slaveholders in the South resisted the change. The actual day that the first enslaved people were freed was on June 19th, 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Texas and proclaimed their freedom-this has resulted in the creation of the holiday Juneteenth that celebrates black freedom from slavery. Anyways, the image of enslaved people rejoicing in freedom that many picture when hearing of the Emancipation Proclamation is entirely incorrect and it is important to spend a lot of time actively seeking out the reality of black history in the U.S. and explain the complexities around slavery and freedom from slavery instead of just explaining the civil war as “freeing” enslaved people (even in a short history of a Southern city), particularly because American history is written from a perspective of white men and intentionally ignores the history of black people and the reality of the oppression that they have put and continue to put onto other groups, and when we study history the truth of this oppression is often concealed from us and we have to seek it out. I’m sure there is a lot more complexity to speak about on this topic, but I think these points are the most vital to bring up in a history of any Southern city.

[@michealarmond7910]

I'm not gonna lie! This is very interesting!! I wish this was the history we was taught In school instead of that garbage they pushed down our throats

[@luckybeantours6787]

Glad you liked it! I can't get enough of our fascinating history and I love telling it.

[@emmanuelshaul1358]

This was taught in school smh

[@deviniscool1621]

Took me right back to NOLA, I wanna go back

[@luckybeantours6787]

Please come back! We are still making history.

[@Imeraldgyrl]

Welp I've lived my entire life and had no clue Bienville was covered in tats.

[@luckybeantours6787]

All tatted up! Thanks for watching.

[@KatieKirkendall]

🖤

[@Mikejones-zg6xg]

Real indias was black tell the truth. Black's was in America b4 slavery enough is enough