Camp Street is a street in

New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...

, Louisiana, United States. The name was originally the Spanish-language ''Campo de Negros''. According to one study of urban American slavery, it may have been so named because it was the dwelling place of free people of color who migrated to New Orleans after the

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, or it may have been named because it was a key location for the

New Orleans slave market New Orleans, Louisiana was a major, if not the major, slave market of the lower Mississippi River valley of the United States from approximately 1830 until the American Civil War. Slaves from the upper south were trafficked by land and by sea ...

. The "Negro Camp," in its earliest days, "opened upon the ''Terre commune'', or ''Common'' ''ground''," which gave its name to Common Street. The first gaslights in New Orleans were installed in the Camp Street Theatre in 1833. It is known today for its preserved

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