re: Landrieu wants to give Robert E. Lee the ol' heave ho

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Poydras' reputation was that of an especially indulgent slaveholder. Yet, while on business in Philadelphia in 1795, a major slave rebellion began on his Alma Plantation, spreading to several other area plantations. The conspirators, who evidence shows to have been urged on by white Jacobin-minded immigrants, were quickly apprehended and several were executed.

Julien Poydras willed that his slaves and their offspring be freed 25 years after his death, and all were to be provided with annuities in the meantime. Though his heirs supported his wishes, the time of the anticipated manumission (1849) coincided with the growing abolitionist movement. Fearful of its consequences, the Louisiana State Legislature prohibited any manumissions, and Poydras' slaves remained in bondage until Union troops entered Pointe Coupee Parish in connection with the Siege of Port Hudson in 1863 — an additional 14 years

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In 1716 he led a campaign against the Natchez Indians, and two years later, after Cadillac’s recall, Bienville was restored to the position of commandant. At that time he founded the settlement of New Orleans on the Mississippi River, and four years later he made that city the new capital of the colony.

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During his second term as Louisiana commandant, he captured Pensacola from the Spanish and instituted a strict “Black Code” regulating the conduct of black slaves.

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It baffles me that people still think the civil war was about slavery.

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Ultimately, it was.

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