Creolizing Currents: Bambara

Dessein de Sauvages de Plusieurs Nations
Alexandre de Batz, 1685-1737
Peabody Museum, Harvard University (PM 41-72-10/2)

Africans, slave and free, were known to join the Indians, notably the Natchez, after 1729's massacre of the French, and Choctaw and Chickasaw.

The New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM) is located in Faubourg Treme, at 1418 Governor Nicholls Street, phone (504) 566-1136.

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