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New Orleans, Louisiana

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Swathed in the romance of pirates, voodoo and Mardi Gras, Louisiana is undeniably special. This is the land of the rural French-speaking Cajuns, descended from 18th century French Canadian refugees, and the haughty Creole aristocrats of jazzy, sassy New Orleans. In 1718 New Orleans was nothing but a set of shacks on a disease-ridden marsh. Its prime location led to rapid development, and by the end of the 18th century, the port was flourishing, the haunt of smugglers, gamblers, prostitutes, pirates and escapees from the French Revolution and West Indian slave rebellions. New Orleans was already a diverse and many-textured city when it experienced two quick-fire changes of government, passing Spanish to French
control in 1801 and then being sold to America under the Louisiana Purchase two years later. This heralded the most bitter transition in the city’s history, literally splitting it into two sections. The Americans who migrated here in droves were seen as crass and uncouth by the Creoles and hated by the blacks, upon whom they placed previously unknown restrictions. Unwelcome in the French Quarter, the newcomers were forced to settle in the areas now known as the Central Business District and the Garden District. Canal Street divided the two sectors, and even today the median strip of the main roads is called ‘the neutral ground’. Creoles and Americans did however come together briefly in 1815, defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans, ending the War of 1812 and securing American supremacy. The victorious General Andrew Jackson’s army was made up of pirates, supplied by the notorious Jean Lafitte, slaves, Creoles and native Americans.
The subsequent “Golden Age” as a finance center for the cotton picking South, trading in tobacco, cotton and indigo lasted until the Civil War. Union troops occupying the city sealed off the Mississippi until 1872 and isolated it from its
markets. The North industrialized, other southern cities grew and the fortunes of New Orleans took a downturn. With the coming of the railway, which diminished the importance of the river, and the abolition of slavery, New Orlean’s glory days were gone. Then, at the turn of the century, when jazz exploded into the bars and bordellos, and Mardi Gras developed into a tourist attraction, this irresistible city got once again a new lease on life.

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