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In the 1720s, on a spot of land now eroded by the river, barracks stood where enslaved Africans from the Senegal-Gambia region were held before being ferried across the river to slave auctions. Early Algiers Point was also home to the slaughterhouse and the powder magazine for New Orleans.
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New Orleans, Louisiana · United States
