NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is publicly unveiling a smartphone app tour of sites important to the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries and historical markers developed with it.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell scheduled a news conference Thursday for the public debut of the app and some of the markers.
The New Orleans Slave Trade Marker and App Project is affiliated with the city's Tricentennial Commission. It comes as Southern plantations and cities around the country are shining an unblinking light on slavery and racial violence.
The app has been available for about two months. It includes more than two hours of recorded descriptions and readings from interviews with and writings by former slaves.
