437. Mary Niall Mitchell

437. We talk to Mary Niall Mitchell about her research into Civil War pictures of freed slave children. Union forces used pictures of white slave children who had been freed in New Orleans as propaganda and to raise money for schools for freed slave children. The Louisiana Anthology has added two articles about these children and these pictures that appeared in Harper's Magazine, "Slave Children" and "White and Colored Slaves."  Mary Niall Mitchell is Raphael Cassimere Professor of History, Interim Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies,  and Director of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. She is the author of Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (NYU Press, 2008) and has published line for Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Commonplace. Mitchell is one of five lead historians for Freedomonthemove.org, a collaborative crowdsourced database of fugitive slave advertisements housed at Cornell University.

1. This week in Louisiana history. October 2, 1965. Edwin Edwards wins his run for 7th District Congressman.
2. This week in New Orleans history. St. Patrick's Church (the second oldest church parish of New Orleans) along with St. Louis Cathedral (the oldest) held the first masses after Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, October 2, 2005. St Patrick's was founded in 1833. The current church at 724 Camp Street was completed in 1840.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
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4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to the band at the Funky 544 on Bourbon St.

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