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These schooners, sloops, ships, brigs, and chebecks had telling names such as L’Esperance, Triumph, Republican, and Le Sauveur. 15 The captains of smaller vessels, such as the chebecks, sloops, and some of the schooners, had the option of taking either the Mississippi River or the Lake Pontchartrain route. The larger ships and brigs, on the other hand, had too deep of a drag to navigate Lake Pontchartrain and were thus required to sail up the river, at times a difficult task. 16 In the midst of the ninemonth-long influx of refugees, Governor Claiborne expressed concern about the ability of the city to accommodate them.
Although officially inhabitants of the United States, most of the residents in New Orleans spoke French as their primary language—there was no language barrier for the refugees. Indeed, because the refugees themselves made up a significant portion of the population in the late territorial period, many of the sights and sounds would have been familiar. Most important, however, the refugees’ new home in New Orleans, like their previous homes in St. Domingue, Jamaica, and Cuba, was a slave society.
78 This may have been the building that housed the New Orleans City Court for part or all of its eight-year tenure (1806–13). The City Court was probably the most influential site at which free people of color asserted and protected their status and rights. In eight years, this court heard around 350 cases involving free colored litigants (about 42 << The Gulf and Its City 10 percent of the total number of cases it heard), including the cases that begin chapters 2, 4, 5, and 6. 79 It stood where the French Market is today, just on the other side of the levee from the Mississippi River on the downriver end of the Vieux Carré.