A day off... finally!

Our first full day off since arriving in Louisiana. New Orleans has recently put up signs in different parts of the city to mark its history as one of the biggest slave markets in the US. A new app called 'slave marker' was released last month which has a walking tour of places important in the slave trade with audio files explaining the history of the locations.

We went to 2/3 of the sites and then went back to listen to the band I blipped yesterday.

In case you're wondering, the other side of this sign reads: "greater Senegambia, the Gold Coast, the Bight of Benin, West, Central and Southeast Africa. Their skills and cultural practices were foundational to the development of Louisiana. Their Middle Passage averaged more than sixty days and thousands perished from causes ranging from malnutrition, scurvy, and other diseases to the violent suppression of onboard rebellion. Those who did survive were often unloaded here along the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1808, the US banned the international slave trade, although illegal shipments of Africans to Louisiana continued, with the last documented slave ship, the Fenix, arriving in New Orleans in 1830."

(That's the last of my backblips from Louisiana. I do have other photos I took on other days but will probably need to use them for work, so can't upload them here.)