"Maison Duverjé á Algér, 1812"

ID: 5710 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, The L. Kemper and Leila Moore Williams Founders Collection, 1964.12. ~ Creator: William R. Shaw ~ Date: Created ca. 1887
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Watercolor of the Duverje family's plantation house (later used as the Algiers courthouse). This plantation was home for many enslaved Africans whose free labor built the Algiers community.

This file appears in: African Presence in Algiers

By Ann Cobb
On December 31, 2019, the Algiers Tricentennial Committee and the Algiers community of New Orleans dedicated this historic Middle Passage marker at what is now the Algiers Courthouse honoring those…