Aurore (slave ship)

The Aurore (along with the Duc du Maine) was a cargo slave ship which brought the first African slaves to Louisiana on June 6, 1719 from Senegambia. [1][2]

References

  1. ^ Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, Africans in Colonial Louisiana, p61
  2. ^ theusgenweb.org "Immigrants to Colonial Louisiana"

See also