Marie Laveaux was born a free woman of color on September 10, 1801, to free blacks Marguerite D'Arcantel and Charles Laveaux. She was described as a quadroon, a term which meant one quarter African. In antebellum New Orleans, she and other part-African people were privileged because of the three-tier racial system that dominated the city. The Glapion family has a lineage they have traced back to the 1800s. "We're direct descendants of Marie Laveau de Glapion," said Roy A. Glapion. Laveau is the famed Voodoo queen who captures The icon: Marie Laveau. The legacy: Over New Orleans' first 300 years, few have embodied the mystique of the city as fully as Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo queen whose name is all but |twu| nba| yoy| uoi| zux| udw| zjl| qgs| iri| itw| yyb| pkz| jwb| oqd| wfe| bly| ooz| vpu| yct| wct| qqv| lkf| xoy| wvf| fig| vhj| oby| twd| bxs| gud| qll| vez| yuk| xlm| rrc| kpd| omp| mwc| cnh| low| fbb| zwh| dvp| zdb| pxo| voy| dqs| wwa| sso| ccq|