Smooth Traveler: Louisiana’s River Road (Part One)
September 20, 2018
ABOVE PHOTO: Bayou Cruise (Photo: Renée S. Gordon) By Renée S. Gordon “Caught in the devil’s bargain” –Joni Mitchell No experience has so impacted the United States as profoundly and lastingly as the years of Black enslavement, which lasted from 1619 to the end of the Civil War. “The peculiar institution” remains a…