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French Louisiana[edit]
Native Americans and French Louisiana[edit]
As a French colony, Louisiana faced struggles with numerous Native American nations. One of which was the Natchez in Southern Mississippi. In the 1720s trouble developed between the French and the Natchez Indians that would be called the Natchez War or Natchez Revolt. 230 colonists were killed and the fort and homes were burned to the ground.
The conflict between the two parties was a direct result of Lieutenant D’Echepare (also known as Sieur de Chépart), the commandant at the settlement near the Natchez, deciding in 1729 that the Natchez Indians should surrender both their cultivated crop lands and their town of White Apple to the French. The Natchez pretended to surrender and actually work for the French in the hunting game, but as soon as they were weaponized, they struck back and killed several men. Resulting in upriver fleeing to New Orleans, where they sought protection from what they feared might be a colony-wide Indian uprising. The Natchez, however, did not to press on after their surprise attack, leaving them vulnerable enough for King Louis XV’s appointed governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville to reclaim the settlement.
Relations with Louisiana’s Indians, a problem inherited from Bienville, remained a concern for the the next governor Marquis de Vaudreuil. In the early 1740s traders from the British colonies of the Atlantic coast crossed into the Appalachian Mountains. The Native nations in between the French colonials and British colonials would now operate dependent on which of the two colonials would most benefit them. Several of these tribes and especially the Chicksaw and Choctaw would trade goods and gifts for their loyalty.
The economic problems under Vaudreuil would not allow these French to outcompete the British and resulted in many of Louisiana’s Native American revolts. In 1747 and 1748 the Chicksaw would raid along the east bank of the Mississippi all the way south to Baton Rouge. These actions supported by the British colonials would force residents of French Louisiana to take refuge in New Orleans.
Slavery in French Louisiana[edit]
Inability to find labor was the most pressing issue in the early French colony. Colonist turned to African slavery to make their investments in Louisiana a profitable. In the late 1710s the international slave trade imported enslaved Africans leading to the biggest shipment in 1716 where several trading ships appeared with slaves as cargo to local residents in a one-year span.
By 1724, the large number of blacks in Louisiana prompted the institutionalizing of laws governing slavery in the colony. Some of these laws included slaves needed to be baptized in the Roman Catholic faith, slaves must be married in the Church and slaves had no legal rights. The slave law formed in the 1720s is known as the Code Noir, which would bleed into the antebellum period of the American South as well. Louisiana slave culture had its own distinct Afro-Creole society that called on past cultures and the situation for slaves in the New World. Afro-Creole was present in religious beliefs and the Louisiana Creole dialect. The religion most associated with this period for slaves started in New Orleans called Voodoo.
Entertainment, Religion, and Architecture from Across the World[edit]
In the city of New Orleans an inspiring mixture of foreign influences created a melting pot of culture that is long-lasting and still celebrated.
The French government established a chapter house of sisters in New Orleans. The Ursuline sisters after being sponsored by the Company of the Indies, founded a convenient in the city in 1727. At the end of the colonial era, the Ursuline Academy maintained a house of seventy boarding and one hundred day students. Today
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