Creolizing Currents: Bambara

The Coast Around Ile Gorée, 1707 or 1718
Guillaume de L'Isle, Detail of "Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinee" (Paris, 1707, 1718?).

New Orleans from the West Bank, 1726
Jean Pierre Lassus, "Veüe et Perspective de la Nouvelle Orléans." Archives Nationales d'Outre-mer.

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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